Win the Summer Carry Kit
One winner gets a Ray-Ban Wayfarer and four leather pieces handmade in Älmhult, Sweden. Worth 5,480 kr. Enter free.
Prize list:
Ray-Ban Original Wayfarer Classic – ORB2140 (worth 1200 SEK) Palsjö Passport Wallet (worth 1795 SEK) Palsjö Card Holder (worth 995 SEK) Palsjö Sunglasses Case (worth 895 SEK) Palsjö Luggage Tag (worth 595 SEK)
Deadline:
Winner picked 10 July. Worldwide entry open.
Grand prize and second prizes:
One grand prize winner gets the full Summer Carry Kit worth 5,480 kr.
Multiple second-place winners will receive a special offer to shop the Palsjö collection at a significant discount. More details announced on 10 July.
No spam. Most weeks I am at the bench making orders and do not send anything. When I do send an email it is because I have something genuine to share, never more than once or twice a week. Unsubscribe anytime.
What you could win
Ray-Ban Wayfarer original wayfarer Classic ORB2140
An Icon Worth Carrying
The Ray-Ban Original Wayfarer has been worn since 1956. Bob Dylan wore them. James Dean wore them. Your dad probably had a pair. There is a reason they have outlasted every trend in fashion for seven decades and that reason is simple: they are genuinely, timelessly good.
I am including a pair in this giveaway because summer deserves the best sunglasses ever made. Not a close second. Not a cheaper alternative. The actual Wayfarer, in the original shape, with the same dark lenses that have defined summer since before most of us were born.
They are also the reason the leather sunglasses case exists. Because the plastic case they come in today is not worthy of them.
PALSJÖ PASSPORT WALLET
Everything you need at the airport. In one place.
You know the moment. You are at the check-in desk, the gate, the hotel reception. Your passport is in one pocket, your boarding pass on your phone, your travel card in the other pocket, your airport credit card somewhere in your bag. Every trip involves the same scramble.
The Palsjö passport wallet was designed around that specific problem. It holds your passport, travel cards, and boarding pass in one slim leather piece. Full grain vegetable-tanned leather from Tärnsjö Garveri, handmade in Älmhult, Sweden. It does not try to do everything. It does exactly what it needs to, and does it properly.
After a year of use it will have developed a patina that is entirely yours. The leather darkens where you touch it most, softens where it flexes, and becomes something no factory could produce.
PALSJÖ SUNGLASSES CASE
The case the Wayfarer always deserved.
The plastic case that comes with a new pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers is an afterthought. It scratches easily, feels hollow, and signals nothing about the quality of what is inside. And worst of all, within a few months of cold and warm weather shifts, it gets brittle and it breaks. For a pair of sunglasses that will last twenty years, a case that lasts two feels wrong.
This case was designed using an original 1960s Ray-Ban envelope case as the reference. The proportions were worked out so it fits the Wayfarer perfectly and works with most other sunglasses as well. Full grain Tärnsjö leather, burnished edges, magnetic closure. It closes cleanly and opens without effort.
It will outlast the sunglasses. When you eventually replace the Wayfarers, the case stays.
PALSJÖ MINIMALIST CARD HOLDER
Slim enough to forget it is there.
Most card holders make one promise and break another. They promise to be slim but bulk up the moment you add more than three cards. Or they carry everything but feel like a brick in your front pocket. The compromise always shows up somewhere.
The Palsjö minimalist card holder uses a classic design with three pockets that carries your daily cards, sits flat in your front pocket, and disappears. That is the entire job. It does it without drama.
Made from full grain Tärnsjö leather, it will last longer than any card holder you have owned before and look better the longer you carry it.
PALSJÖ LUGGAGE TAG
Your bag should never get lost.
Most luggage tags are an afterthought. A piece of plastic from the airline, a flimsy branded tag from a travel shop, something that tears off after three trips and ends up in a drawer. You replace them and never quite feel good about any of them.
The Palsjö luggage tag is cut from full grain Tärnsjö leather, attaches to your bag handle with a pure leather loop, and keeps your contact details behind a cover flap that folds back when needed — no metal hardware, nothing to rust or break. It attaches properly, stays attached, and gets better looking the more it travels. There is nothing unnecessary about it.
Small detail. But the kind of detail that means your bag comes back to you.
ÄLMHULT, SWEDEN
One craftsman. One workshop. Everything made by hand.
Palsjö is a one-man workshop in Älmhult, a small town in the Småland region of Sweden. Every product is made by one person – me. My name is Mano. I cut the leather, assemble it, I finish it and I send it to you.
This is not a romantic idea. It is about accountability. When the same person does everything, there is no one else to blame if something falls short. Every item that leaves this workshop carries my name – and that is how I want it to stay.
Products from Palsjö are made to be repaired, not replaced. Every technique used in this workshop, from hand cutting to edge burnishing, was learned the slow way, through years of trial and correction, not a course or a certificate. That kind of skill shows in the smallest details most people never notice but somehow always feel. The leather is built to last a lifetime, and the warranty reflects exactly that.
Win the Summer Carry Kit
One winner gets a Ray-Ban Wayfarer and four leather pieces handmade in Älmhult, Sweden. Worth 5,480 kr. Enter free.
Deadline:
Winner picked 10 July. Worldwide entry open.
Grand prize and second prizes:
One grand prize winner gets the full Summer Carry Kit worth 5,480 kr.
Multiple second-place winners will receive a special offer to shop the Palsjö collection at a significant discount. More details announced on 10 July.
No spam. Most weeks I am at the bench making orders and do not send anything. When I do send an email it is because I have something genuine to share, never more than once or twice a week. Unsubscribe anytime.