Wave Fold Laptop Sleeve

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A sleeve in needle-punched recycled wool felt with an unbleached cotton canvas lining and a closed-cell foam layer at the base, where a laptop actually lands. Every seam is stitched and bound, with no adhesive anywhere, so a tear is a ten minute job for any tailor on your street. Two cheats in soft goods. The first is a rounded fibre claim: a needle-punched felt cannot be 100 percent wool, because the sheet needs a binder fibre to hold the punched web together, and a maker who prints 100 percent wool has either rounded away 40 percent of the composition or is selling a resin-bonded felt that will shed. Both figures belong on the page. The second is glue: a sleeve assembled with adhesive looks identical in a photograph and cannot be repaired, because a tailor can restitch a seam and cannot re-bond a laminate. So both figures, and no glue.

• Outer: 3 mm needle-punched felt, 60 percent post-consumer recycled wool and 40 percent polyester binder fibre. Both numbers printed. The binder is what holds a punched web together, so calling this 100 percent wool would be the exact rounding this page objects to
• Density: 900 GSM at 3 mm, which is 0.30 g per cubic centimetre, so the figures agree with each other
• Lining: unbleached cotton canvas at 220 GSM, 10s x 10s, 48 ends and 46 picks per inch. Check it: (48 divided by 10, plus 46 divided by 10) x 23.5 is about 221
• Padding: 6 mm cross-linked closed-cell polyethylene at 33 kg per cubic metre at the base, 3 mm on the faces. The base is doubled because that is the edge a bag lands on
• Construction: lock-stitched at 9 stitches per inch in Tex 40 bonded polyester thread, every raw edge bound. No adhesive anywhere in the sleeve
• Zip: size 5 metal teeth on a cotton tape, with a replaceable slider. Spare slider and pull Rs 90, and refitting one needs a pair of pliers and no skill
• Fit: internal 305 x 215 x 20 mm at 13 inch, 325 x 230 x 20 mm at 14 inch, 360 x 250 x 22 mm at 16 inch, each with 6 mm of clearance on the machine it is cut for
• Flat outer pocket at 180 x 120 mm, sized for a 65 W charger and a cable
• Weight: 185 g at 13 inch, 200 g at 14 inch, 235 g at 16 inch
• Colourfastness to rubbing tested dry and wet to ISO 105-X12, and the fibre composition confirmed by quantitative chemical analysis. Both reports below
• The price ladder is not proportional to area. The zip, the slider, the thread and the labour cost the same on all three sizes, and only the felt and canvas scale, which is why it is Rs 100 and then Rs 300 rather than a percentage
• The honest trade is that wool felt pills. Rubbing against a bag strap will raise fibre on the outer face within a few months, and a fabric shaver takes it off. A coated synthetic would not pill and also could not be repaired