Lifafa Air Wallet

Light as air, shaped like an envelope

A wallet that is also a clutch. Closed, it slides into a tote beside the laptop; on its own, with the phone and two cards inside, it is the evening bag. There is no chain, no zip and no hardware beyond the round press stud on the flap, which is why it weighs less than the phone it carries and still closes flat when full.

One of each print

Every Lifafa is printed cotton (the pattern is printed, not woven), cut, lined and sewn by one curator. Cream suns on rani pink, flower butis on cream, owls on navy, cream Ajrakh medallions on black and maroon, cream dots and dashes on maroon, Kalamkari paisleys in rust on black, a shoal of fish on magenta, patola hearts on green, folk figures on beige, indigo medallions on mustard, white rosettes on indigo, ikat diamonds on leaf green, mustard-gold paisley butis on maroon, eight-point stars on red and round black-and-white flowers on red: one piece in each print, with more prints to come. What each of the fifteen names means is in our note on the prints.

• Dhoop Rani Pink Print Envelope Wallet: rani pink ground with cream suns.
• Malai Cream Floral Print Envelope Wallet: cream ground with small black-and-maroon flower butis on stems.
• Ghuvad Navy Owl Print Envelope Wallet: navy ground with rows of round owls in blue, pink, orange and mint.
• Gulzar Red Floral Print Envelope Wallet: red ground with round black-and-white flowers and small cross motifs between them.
• Raat Rani Black Ajrakh Print Envelope Wallet: black and maroon Ajrakh-pattern print in blocks: round floral medallions ringed with cream dots.
• Boond Maroon Dotted Print Envelope Wallet: maroon ground with a lattice of cream dots and dashes.
• Kalam Black Kalamkari Print Envelope Wallet: black ground with rust, red and beige Kalamkari paisleys.
• Machhli Magenta Fish Print Envelope Wallet: magenta ground crowded with small fish.
• Saavan Green Patola Print Envelope Wallet: green ground with a Patola-pattern lattice of red hearts and orange flowers.
• Toran Beige Folk Print Envelope Wallet: beige ground with rows of little folk figures in black dotted skirts and red rosettes.
• Sandhya Mustard Ajrakh Print Envelope Wallet: mustard ground washed with indigo, with round Ajrakh-pattern medallions.
• Chakri Indigo Print Envelope Wallet: indigo ground with large white rosettes.
• Sabza Green Ikat Print Envelope Wallet: leaf green ground with cream ikat zigzags and blurred pink diamonds.
• Kairi Maroon Paisley Print Envelope Wallet: maroon ground with rows of small paisley butis outlined in mustard-gold dots.
• Sitara Red Ajrakh Print Envelope Wallet: red ground with eight-point stars.

What goes in

The phone slot runs the width of the wallet: an iPhone 17 Pro Max fits, and any phone smaller than that. The two card slots sit at the front; the money slot behind them takes notes folded once, or a stack of extra cards. Loaded, it still closes flat.

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