Description
The Rockdale Personalized Leather Journal Cover
The Rockdale Personalized Leather Journal Cover, a beautiful and stylish leather journal cover designed to hold your thoughts. A piece of beautiful full grain vegetable tanned leather is selected, cut and then hand dyed and sealed. The stitching holes are then punched and the pieces are saddle stitched together by hand. Finally, the edges are then burnished and sealed with bees wax.
The features of the Rockdale Personalized Leather Journal Cover are:
- Dimensions: 9″ x 6″ (23 cm x 15.5 cm) – accepts Notebooks up to 8.25″ x 5.25″ (21 cm x 13.5 cm)
- Saddle stitched together by hand using strong waxed thread.
- Non toxic water based dye is used to colour the Leather.
- Hand burnished edges sealed with bees wax.
- 4-5 Oz (1.6 mm – 2.0 mm) full grain vegetable tanned Cowhide Leather.
- Due to variations in a natural product such as vegetable tanned leather, you can expect that each notebook cover will be unique.
These covers are all made by hand and to order so the production time of these is 1-2 weeks.
Hot Letterpress characters are pressed down onto the leather to leave a lasting impression. By using the hot characters the grain of the leather will not be damaged so the chance of leather fraying is reduced.
- Font used is Times Roman.
- Up to 3 characters can be stamped horizontally or up to 9 characters can be stamped vertically.
Leather
The leather used to make this item is a 4-5 Oz (1.6 – 2.0 mm) full grain vegetable tanned Leather made from the skin of cows. Full Grain vegetable tanned leather develops a patina during its lifetime.
Full-grain leather refers to hides that have not been sanded, buffed, or snuffed (as opposed to top-grain or corrected leather) to remove imperfections (or natural marks) on the surface of the hide. As a result of this, the grain remains which contains the fiber, strength and durability. The grain has breath-ability, resulting in less moisture from prolonged contact.
Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannin and other ingredients found in different vegetable matter, such as tree bark prepared in bark mills, wood, leaves, fruits and roots and other similar sources. This tanning process is the most Eco friendly and has been used to make leather for thousands of years. Due to this process, he leather created is supple and cream to brown in colour, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and the colour of the skin. It is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping.
Ounces are used to measure leather thickness. One ounce equals 1/64″ (0.4 mm) in thickness. So a weight of 7 to 8 oz. means the leather is 7/64″ (2.8 mm) to 8/64″ (3.2 mm) in thickness or approximately 1/8″ thick. The thickness of leather varies to some extent throughout the hide. Thus, leather is graded a range of thickness such as 4 to 5 oz., or 6 to 7 oz. As a comparison, a quarter (coin) is equal to a 4 oz. thickness. A standard thickness for belts is a 7 to 8 oz leather.
Etsy buyer –
carmela –
Absolutely beautiful. Purchased as a gift for my husband and it was a big hit. Leather is beautiful, great quality, nice and thick making a sturdy A5 journal cover. Will buy again, just stunning. Makes a wonderful gift idea. Came beautifully packaged. Very professional and great craftsman ship. Highly recommend 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Etsy buyer –
I ordered a custom notebook cover with leather flap closure and asked if Nick could do some unique letter sizes (subscript for a chemical formula) and it came out absolutely perfect! I can’t wait to get more custom items from him in the future. If you want to see a picture of this awesome work check out his Facebook page and you can see just how cool it looks. Thanks again!
Marti –
Total awesome product. Love the leather look. I had other ideas for this cover but change my mine. Just manage to squeeze my Leuchtturm in 😄 (not made to fit). Thanks!
AK –
Great item and creator was very helpful 🙂
Lace –
Well made and gorgeous color. Thanks for getting this done and mailed in time. Much appreciated for your help. Thanks.
Geja –
Love my notebook! thank you so much!
Rachel –
Absolutely perfect! My husband loves his new note book cover and can’t wait to take it to work. Nick was a pleasure to talk to and easily made some little changes that i requested. I can’t wait to order more beautiful handmade items from Nick.
Etsy buyer –
Thank you so much for getting the gift to me in time for my wedding anniversary! It was gratefully received and quality looks amazing. Thanks!
julia –
Etsy buyer –
Was ok. Fast shipping, letters were larger than in the picture. Quality was ok.
Umberto –
Lauren –
Beautiful craftsmanship! Absolutely love it and have had many compliments on this notebook cover. Will definitely buy from Nick again! Thank you.
Matthew –
Fast shipment
Awesome cover – good quality
Does what it says on the tin
Etsy buyer –
Thank you for so kindly accomodating my request for specific measurements. It’s a beautiful cover: simple but elegant. I look forward to using it for a long time to come.