Cover Leathers

Badalassi Carlo Loch Ness Cowhide

This vacchetta leather is combined with a special shrunken process to create an ultra unique and rugged grain. This vacchetta veg tan leather is their top grade, it is full grain and has a nice supple feel with a small amount of firmness. Loch Ness is a vacchetta leather that is infused with a special blend of Italian fat wax giving it the famous hand and feel attributed with the vacchetta name. This leather has a beautiful smooth grain with a beautiful depth to the leather color. The veg tan will have an amazing patina as it ages. The leather is dyed completely through and has a nice soft flesh side. This leather has a great feel in the hand.

Badalassi Carlo Minerva Box Cowhide

Minerva Box Vegetable Tanned Leather comes from the Badalassi Carlo Tannery in Tuscany, Italy. They are well known for their traditional methods of vegetable tanning with tree barks that go back 100's of years. Minerva Box is a full grain cowhide that is offered in striking hues. As a naturally tumbled leather, its surface is littered with non-uniform variations of pebbled textures. These features add personality and depth to the final product, not to mention the promise of a rich patina with time and wear.

This veg tan leather is their top grade, it is full grain and has a nice supple feel with a small amount of firmness. Minerva Box is a vacchetta leather that is infused with special blend of Italian fat wax giving it the famous hand and feel attributed with the vacchetta name. The grain has a natural pebbled texture that adds beautiful depth to the leather. Because it a natural pebble grain, it may have some slight variation throughout the hide.

Minerva Box leather is dry milled (Tumbled), meaning this leather undergoes a tumbling process in heated drums, resulting in a softer feel, a wrinkled texture, and a distressed appearance. Milling is a process that allows individual hide to produce its own naturally unique grain. Sizing and irregularity is variable and will depend on the dermal fiber and thickness of the hides.

Badalassi Carlo Waxy Pull-Up Cowhide

Badalassi Carlo Waxy Pull-Up Cowhide is a waxy Vegetable Tanned Leather comes from the Badalassi Carlo Tannery in Italy. Pull Up leather is a type of leather that is colored with dyes that are sealed using natural oils and/or waxes instead of paints, pigments and top coats, which gives the leather a very soft feel. When this leather is stretched or pulled, the color migrates and becomes lighter in the pulled areas. It has a unique natural appearance which lightens in color when stretched to produce a unique worn-in effect with time. Due to this soft and scratch-sensitive finish, the leather quickly gets a beautiful vintage-patina.

Capra Granulosa Goatskin

Capra Granuloso has a natural grainy character which is very attractive. The grain is naturally obtained, with no artificial graining techniques to hide grain defects such as plating, embossing, etc . Goatskin is a very flexible, yet tough leather that resists scratching and scuffing.

Double Shot Pull-Up Cowhide

Double Shot is a new pull-up cowhide leather from the Seidel Tannery in the USA. It is known for its beautiful pull up, smooth finish and buttery hand. This article is full grain and has a nice supple feel with healthy amount of firmness. 

One of its best attributes is the pull-up, this comes from a unique multiple hot wax process that infuses the wax into the leather.  The end result is a beautiful and rich leather that shows its pull-up as you open the fibers when folding the leather. This leather will patina over time.

Sokoto Traditional Goatskin

Sokoto Traditional goatskin is produced from Nigerian skins, among the most desirable and expensive goat skins available world wide. Sokoto Traditional goatskin leather is known worldwide as the finest available goatskin for Bible rebinding. Goatskin is a very flexible, yet tough leather that resists scratching and scuffing.