This passport holder measures 14.7 x 10.6 cm (5.79 x 4.17 in), weighs 230 g, and carries a passport, a boarding pass, and 4 cards in pockets of their own. It is handmade from calfskin embossed with a crocodile pattern, sealed to a glossy finish, lined with fabric, and hand-sewn with a saddle stitch. The composition is 65% calfskin leather and 35% napa leather. The GENTCREATE name is hot-stamped in gold by hand on the inside, so the cover you hand across a border desk carries nothing for a stranger to read.
Key facts
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14.7 x 10.6 cm (5.79 x 4.17 in) closed: sized around a passport booklet with a margin of leather all the way around it, which puts it in an inside jacket pocket or the front sleeve of a bag rather than a trouser pocket.
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230 g (8.11 oz): light enough that it does not change the way a jacket hangs, substantial enough in the hand to read as leather rather than as a folder.
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A passport pocket and a separate boarding-ticket pocket: the two documents you are asked for in the same breath live in two different places, so presenting one does not mean pulling the other out of the way.
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4 card slots: a payment card, an ID, and two travel cards, which is the set you actually want in your hand at a counter rather than your whole wallet.
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No cash pocket: there is no pocket designed for banknotes, and we would rather you read that here than work it out at an airport.
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Logo hot-stamped inside, not on the cover: the gold stamp is applied by hand where you see it when you open the holder, and where the person across the desk does not.
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65% calfskin leather, 35% napa leather: calfskin on the outside where the piece gets handled by other people, napa as the softer leather in the build, with a fabric lining inside.
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Crocodile-embossed, not printed: the scale pattern is pressed into the hide, so it has relief you can feel and it cannot peel away the way a surface print does.
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Hand-sewn saddle stitch: every stitch is locked on its own, so one broken thread cannot run a seam open in the middle of a trip.
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Fingerprint resistant and dust resistant, not scratch resistant: the sealed glossy surface shrugs off skin oils and wipes clean, but it collects fine scratches with use, and we claim no water resistance for it anywhere on this page.
Why our name is stamped inside, not on the cover
A passport holder is the one leather piece you own that you routinely hand to a stranger. It crosses a border desk, lands on a hotel counter, sits under a rental agent's pen, and stays there face up while somebody else reads the document inside it. We designed this one around that moment. The gold GENTCREATE stamp is pressed into the leather on the inside, so the outside face is uninterrupted embossed calfskin with nothing on it to read, and the person opposite you is looking at your passport rather than at a brand.
We are not going to tell you that a plain cover protects you from anything. What it does is keep the object quiet. A document wallet with a name across the front is making a statement in every immigration queue you stand in, whether you meant to make one or not, and it is a statement about money rather than about taste. The stamping method holds up better where it sits, too: pressed into the leather rather than printed on top of it, the mark does not wear away with handling, which matters on a piece that spends its life being passed from hand to hand. Our position is that a piece should be recognizable by how it is made, and this is the product where acting on that costs us the most visibility.
What it holds: a passport, a boarding pass, and four cards
One passport pocket, one boarding-ticket pocket, four card slots. That is the entire layout, and each part of it earns its place. The passport goes in its own sleeve instead of sharing space with everything else, so the booklet is not being bent around a stack of cards. The boarding-ticket pocket is separate on purpose, because at a gate the pass and the passport are asked for together, and two pockets means you present both at once instead of shuffling one behind the other. It takes a folded printed pass, a bag-drop receipt, or a landing card handed out on the plane.
The four card slots are cut for one card each: a payment card, an ID, a lounge or loyalty card, a transit card for wherever you just landed. Fabric lines the interior, and that is the surface sitting against the laminated page of the passport. What this holder does not have is a cash pocket. There is no slot designed for banknotes, and we are not going to relabel the boarding-ticket pocket as one to make the specification look longer. If you fold a note in there on a trip, that is your call. It is not what we built and not what we will claim.
The leather: crocodile-embossed calfskin, sealed glossy
The outer skin is calfskin, embossed with a crocodile scale pattern and finished with a leather sealant that gives it its gloss. The emboss does more than decorate. Raised scales break up the surface, so the holder has grip in the hand instead of sliding off a tray or a counter, and a broken texture carries the marks of use better than a flat polished panel. The full composition is 65% calfskin leather and 35% napa leather, with a fabric lining inside. Napa is the soft, close-grained leather we reach for wherever something has to pass in and out without scraping. The whole piece is handmade and hand-sewn with a saddle stitch, and the surface still reads as smooth under the fingers despite the relief, because the scales are pressed into one hide rather than applied as separate pieces. If the material this pattern imitates interests you, our guide to crocodile leather covers it properly.
Is this real crocodile skin? No, and that is deliberate
We emboss the crocodile pattern into calfskin rather than working in crocodile hide, and we will always say so before you buy. It is a choice we make on purpose. It keeps this piece clear of exotic-skin sourcing, and it means we can make you the same holder in the same finish years from now, which is not a promise a genuine exotic hide lets us make. On a travel product there is a second reason worth stating plainly: exotic skins are regulated when they cross borders, and embossed calfskin is not an exotic skin, so that is not a conversation this holder will ever start. What you get is the architecture of the scale pattern on a leather we control from the tannery onward, so it wears evenly and behaves the way we say it will.
What we do not claim: this is not a waterproof document case
We publish no water resistance rating for this holder, and we are not going to let the idea drift onto the page by implication. It is sealed calfskin over a fabric lining. That is a finish, not a barrier, and a passport is the one document in your bag you cannot casually replace. So carry it the way you would carry any leather: in an inside pocket or a bag, not strapped to the outside of a pack in the rain. If a soaking is part of the itinerary, put the passport in a sealed pouch for that leg and let the leather carry it the rest of the time.
If it does get wet, blot it with a dry cloth, open it out, and let it dry at room temperature, away from a radiator, a hair dryer, or a sunny windowsill. Heat is what actually ruins wet leather, not the water. We would rather write this paragraph than sell you a promise that fails at a border desk.
Is this the right passport holder for you
Choose this one if: you want a passport, a boarding pass, and a short stack of cards in one place that opens flat on a counter, you would rather carry texture than another plain document folder, and you like the idea of a cover that tells the person opposite you nothing at all.
Look elsewhere if: you keep cash in your document wallet, because there is no cash pocket here and no amount of goodwill invents one. Look elsewhere too if you need two passports, a vaccination booklet, and a stack of currency in the same piece, since this is built around one passport and four cards. And if what you want is a case that is scratch protected or rated against water, this is not that case, which is why both of those sit in their own sections on this page rather than in a footnote.
Caring for a glossy embossed finish that travels
The sealant does most of the work. A dry or barely damp cloth brings the shine back, and because the surface is fingerprint resistant and dust resistant, that is usually the whole routine even after a long trip. Two honest warnings, and the first matters more on a travel piece than on anything else we make. This leather is not scratch protected. The glossy finish shows fine marks, and a passport holder lives in bags with keys, chargers, and pens, and gets pushed across counters nobody has wiped. The emboss disguises those marks better than a smooth panel would, but it does not prevent them, and after a few years of real traveling this piece will look traveled. Second, keep alcohol away from it. Hand sanitizer is the version you will actually meet, and it cuts through the sealant exactly the way a household cleaner does, leaving a dull patch that will not buff out. Let sanitizer dry on your hands before you pick the holder up again.
Because the finish is sealed rather than open-pored, it needs far less conditioning than an untreated leather. A light neutral conditioner once a year, at the corners and along the spine, and only where it is starting to look dry, is plenty. Store it flat rather than folded around a thick stack of paperwork, since leather takes the shape you leave it in. Our tips on cleaning leather goods go further.
What customers say
The feedback on this holder gathers around a few consistent points. Owners tell us it keeps its shape with a boarding pass and several cards loaded, which is the specific thing that makes a document wallet useful at a gate rather than handsome in a drawer. The texture comes up repeatedly, usually described as smooth without being slippery, which is the emboss doing its job. People who fly constantly for work are a visible share of the buyers, and it shows up regularly as a gift that the giver then reorders for themselves. The depth of the leather in daylight gets mentioned more often than we expected it to.
The critical feedback is worth repeating as well, because there is little of it and it has not been about the leather. The one recurring complaint has been a delivery that ran long over a holiday period, resolved afterward by our support team. What has not come back to us is a complaint about the construction.
Questions buyers ask
Is this real crocodile leather? No. It is calfskin embossed with a crocodile pattern. You get the architecture of the scales without exotic-skin sourcing, and we will never describe it as anything else.
Will my passport fit, and what else goes in it? There is a dedicated passport pocket, a separate boarding-ticket pocket, and 4 card slots. The holder measures 14.7 x 10.6 cm closed, which leaves a margin of leather around a standard passport booklet.
What size and weight is it? 14.7 x 10.6 cm, or 5.79 x 4.17 in, and 230 g (8.11 oz).
Does it have a cash pocket? No. There is no pocket designed for banknotes. This is a document and card holder.
Is it waterproof? It is not waterproof. We publish no water resistance rating for it, and you should not treat a passport as protected inside it. If it gets wet, blot it and let it dry at room temperature away from heat.
Does it block RFID? We publish no RFID shielding rating for this holder, so do not buy it for that. If chip shielding is what you need, buy a piece that states a shielding specification.
Is it scratch resistant? No. It is fingerprint resistant and dust resistant, but the glossy finish will show fine scratches with daily use.
Where is the logo? Hot-stamped in gold by hand on the inside, not on the cover. The outside is plain embossed leather.
Is it a men's or women's passport holder? It is unisex. The size is dictated by the documents it carries, so it is the same piece whichever color you choose above.
