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A suede shoulder bag in the mahjong style, offered in 3 muted colours, soft enough to sit against the body all day.
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Suede is leather with the surface napped rather than smoothed. It is softer immediately, it takes colour more deeply, and it drapes rather than holding a rigid shape.
It also marks. Water spots it, oil from hands darkens it over time, and it cannot simply be wiped. In exchange it develops a character that smooth leather never does, and it is noticeably nicer against the body.
Anyone who has owned suede knows this trade. Anyone who has not should know it before ordering.
Grass green, golden brown and a soft pink. All three are muted rather than saturated, which is the right choice in suede: the nap already carries depth, and a bright colour on a napped surface reads as fake.
A shoulder bag sits close to the body, which matters when the other hand is holding a mahjong set. The set goes in a case; the bag holds everything else.
Smooth leather is the safer purchase and suede is the better object, and which of those matters depends entirely on how the bag will live. A bag that goes out twice a month and lives on a shelf will be beautiful in suede for years. A bag carried daily through weather will not.
Be honest about which one you are buying before choosing the material.
A suede brush, not a cloth. Keep it out of rain, and if it does get wet let it dry away from heat before brushing the nap back up. A protector spray before first use is worth the 10 minutes.
| Material | Suede |
|---|---|
| Type | Shoulder bag |
| Colours | Grass green, golden brown, Monet pink |
| Weight | 2 kg (4.4 lb) |
Orders are processed within 1 to 2 business days, with tracking on every parcel. Delivery across the United States takes 10 to 25 days and costs $9.95, one flat rate charged once per order whatever the number of items.
Changed your mind? You have 30 days from delivery to request a return, unused and in its original packaging. Approved refunds go back to your original payment method within 3 business days.
Nobody knows what's inside
Cowhide, suede, straw. Carry it to your friend’s place, then carry it to lunch.
Big enough to matter
Sizes that take a compact tile set, which handbags almost never do. Capacity is on the page, so it's a choice and not a gamble.
Take mahj with you
The reason your set leaves the house instead of living in a closet.
A playing set carries its cost in volume: 144 or 166 separate tiles, each moulded, engraved and colour matched, plus a case that survives being carried. This listing is not a set. It is a suede shoulder bag in the mahjong style, sold on its own in 3 colours, so the tiles are a separate purchase and travel in their own case. The bag holds everything that goes alongside the game.
A bag meant to carry a set has to clear the case itself, so the figures to compare are the interior length, width and depth against your case measured with the lid closed. This shoulder bag is not sized for that and no interior dimension is published for it. Treat it as the bag for what travels beside the game, the card, glasses, phone and keys, with the set in its own case.
Warehouse sets are generally complete and priced low, with small printed tiles and a soft case, which serves occasional play well enough. What to check is the count, 144 for the traditional game and 166 for the American one, and whether the case will still shut in a year. None of that applies here: this listing is a suede shoulder bag, not a playing set, and tiles are bought separately.
Prices spread widely, and the drivers are the count, the tile size, whether the markings are engraved or printed, and whether racks and a hard case are included. A set with 4 racks and pushers in a rigid case sits well above one with small printed tiles in a fabric sleeve. This listing sits outside that question: it is a suede shoulder bag, carried alongside a set rather than holding one.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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