Well-crafted Galuchat (Stingray Leather) Wallet Manufacturer for Global Brands

AKNAS is a Bangkok-based manufacturer of custom stingray leather wallets, known as Galuchat, supplying designers, fashion brands and boutiques worldwide. We produce stingray leather wallets, card holders and custom styles through OEM and ODM manufacturing, built for everyday durability and long-term wear.

Stingray Leather Wallet Product Range

We supply a diverse array of stingray leather wallet styles tailored to fulfil various market requirements:

Stingray slim or zip-around wallets with refined card and bills compartments
Stingray bifold wallet style suited for men with slim card slot arrangements
Stingray card wallet styles suited to slim, minimalist accessories lines
Stingray wallet-style accessory covers for phones, notebooks, passports, and other everyday accessories.
Custom stingray skin wallet designs tailored to your brand specifications

Each product is developed with attention to structure, finishing, and usability, ensuring consistency across bulk orders.

AKNAS Galuchat Shagreen Wallets

High-end Stingray Leather Wallet Craftsmanship

Stingray leather is valued for its exceptional durability, distinctive pebbled texture and naturally unique finish. In its raw state, it is naturally firm, but our traditional Galuchat techniques transform it into a soft, flexible leather with a deep, even colour, combining lasting performance with a refined, luxury appearance suitable for everyday use.

Every wallet reflects a series of hand techniques built up over decades of specialisation:

Precise skiving underneath the stingray leather to control thickness and achieve a refined final result
Handmade Galuchat grooves that enhance stitching visibility and add structural resistance
Precise polishing before glue and lining are applied
Handmade edge finishing, involving primer application and three separate polishing stages between each layer, suited to slim wallet construction
Handmade zipper pullers combining metal and Galuchat, on our zip-around wallet styles
Adaptation of inner materials and lining to your brand's specifications

This makes our stingray leather wallets suitable for brands targeting premium and luxury accessories segments.

Stingray Leather Wallet Wholesale and Custom Manufacturing

AKNAS supports brands seeking custom stingray leather wallet manufacturing or unfinished leather components. From our Bangkok workshop, we work with designers, fashion brands, and boutique owners through three flexible production options.

OEM: Guided Production from Your Design

For brands with their own design, we manufacture stingray leather wallets from your sketches, specifications, or samples. Our team advises on material selection, construction and finishing throughout the process, so the final piece is built to last as well as to look right.

ODM: Adapt Our Existing Designs

Choose from our existing wallet catalogue and adapt the design for your brand. You can customise the leather type, colour, hardware, lining or internal card slot arrangement.

Unfinished Stingray Leather Parts

For brands with their own assembly team, we supply prepared stingray leather parts and cut components for further production.

This flexibility allows your brand to choose the production route that fits your timeline, budget and level of involvement.

Stingray Wallet Price and Value

The stingray wallet price varies depending on the design, materials and production requirements. Because every project is manufactured for a brand, pricing is typically quoted based on your specifications rather than a fixed catalogue price.

Several factors influence the final cost, including:

Leather selectionThe quality and size of the Galuchat skin, the placement of its centre pearl, and the amount of leather required for the design all influence the final cost.
 Wallet format– Bifold wallets and slim card wallet formats each require different construction and panel counts.
Hardware and lining – Zip closures, press studs, premium metal hardware and custom lining fabrics can affect pricing.
Level of customisation – Unique colourways, stamped branding and bespoke internal layouts require additional development time.
Order quantity – Larger stingray leather wallet wholesale orders generally offer better production efficiency and unit pricing.

At AKNAS, we help clients find the right balance between craftsmanship, material selection and budget. Whether you are developing a limited luxury wallet collection or planning a larger production run, we can recommend the most suitable manufacturing approach for your brand.

Colorful Moleskine Stingray Leather Notebook Holder

Why Choose AKNAS as Your Stingray Leather Wallet & Card Holder Manufacturer

Over 20 years focused on one material. Stingray leather is what AKNAS has built its expertise around, with the tooling, patterns, and colour range this specialisation requires

A collaborative approach to OEM. We advise on material selection, construction, and finishing throughout your project, not just execution from a brief

Low minimum order quantities, from 12 pieces for wallets and card holders, so independent designers and established brands alike can produce in stingray leather without large upfront commitment

A Bangkok-based workshop with an integrated supply chain, sourcing leather, wood, metals, resin, and other materials directly, while managing production and quality control under one roof.

☞ Sample development before full production. We produce initial samples so you can review quality and fit before committing to a large order

Your Stingray Leather Wallet Collection with AKNAS

Looking for a stingray leather wallet manufacturer for your next accessories collection?
AKNAS can help you develop custom stingray wallets, genuine stingray skin wallet styles, stingray bifold wallet and stingray zip-around wallet designs for your brand. Talk with us to discuss your project, material requirements and production options.

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Stingray Wallet Manufacturing

Stingray leather, also known as Galuchat, has a naturally hard, pebbled texture unlike smooth cowhide or other common leathers. It is significantly more durable and resistant to wear, making it well suited to everyday carry items such as wallets and card holders. While stingray leather is often perceived as rigid, the Galuchat we use is processed using traditional techniques to create a leather that is remarkably flexible, supple, and deeply dyed, without compromising its exceptional durability.

Yes. Through our OEM service, we work from your own designs, technical specifications or existing samples, guiding you through material selection, construction and finishing along the way. We work with you from initial sampling through to full production runs.

AKNAS offers extensive customisation for stingray leather wallets, including wallet size, layout, stitching, edge finishing, leather colour, lining materials and hardware. We can also combine stingray leather with python, crocodile or lambskin to create a design that reflects your brand identity while meeting your functional and aesthetic requirements.

The stingray wallet price depends on the wallet format, leather grade, hardware selection, internal layout and order quantity. Because all production is customised for brands, pricing is quoted based on your specifications. Contact our team for a quote based on your project.

Yes. We supply unfinished stingray leather parts and cut components for designers and workshops who handle their own assembly, alongside our OEM and ODM wallet manufacturing services.

As a small handcrafted workshop, our typical production lead time is 45 to 90 days, depending on the complexity of the project, materials, and order volume. For OEM projects with more detailed customisation, timelines may vary and will be confirmed at the quoting stage.

No. Stingray, the species AKNAS sources for Galuchat, is not classified as endangered and is not subject to CITES regulation. This differs from python and crocodile leather, which do require CITES export documentation, provided by AKNAS on request.

For over 10 years, AKNAS has selected goat-style sheepskin tanning for the lining of our maroquinerie and bags. This leather offers a smooth and refined touch, greater resistance than lambskin, and a balanced density that provides durability and excellent workability for luxury leather goods.