Cork Purse

Cork Purse – Lovely Coin purses made from genuine Portuguese Cork.

choose from 3 designs:

port11 – 2 pockets with zip dimensions: 12 x 8 x 2cm.

port12 – 1 pocket with zip dimensions: 12 x 8 x 2cm.

port13 – 1 pocket with zip and keyring dimensions: 9 x 9 x 3cm.

Highly water resistant.

Suitable for Vegan and vegetarian lifestyles. Sustainable natural product.

We sell a variety of cork products

Cork Purse Background

Cork is one of Portugals most famous exports.

Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the cork oak), which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Cork is composed of suberin, a hydrophobic substance. Because of its impermeable, buoyant, elastic, and fire retardant properties, it is used in a variety of products, the most common of which is wine stoppers.

Portugal is the biggest cork producer in the world and produces more than 50% of the world’s cork supply. The vast majority of this is made into wine bottle stoppers but, increasingly, more and more cork is being sold to the construction and fashion industries and even to the space industry.