the heritage film — a classic being bound

the bindery

Most notebooks are made
to be used up.
Ours are made to be kept.
see the journals
the house standard

Five points.
Every book we make.

Every Leatherpress journal, whichever collection, is made to the same five points. Tap them on the journal below.

a Saddler Quintessential journal on the bench
A Saddler Quintessential journal. The five points apply to every collection.
Racing Green Heritage journal — front cover
point 1 · the hide

One source, every collection

Every collection starts with hides sourced across Africa and cut in Vereeniging, South Africa, by a company that makes only bookbinding leather. Each hide is cut on a Teseo machine and passes four stages of manual inspection before it becomes a cover. The Artisan and Heritage journals are full-grain leather, the top of the hide with its natural marks intact. The Inspire notebooks are pebbled leather from the same source. No two journals are exactly alike.

across africa · cut in vereeniging · full grain & pebbled
the inspire notebook, layer by layer

Take apart an
Inspire journal.

The five points hold across every collection. Only the Inspire notebooks carry an accordion pocket in the back cover. Scroll to take one apart.Keep scrolling to take it apart, or tap a layer to hold it.

A Twilight Gray Inspire notebook with a ticket tucked under its elastic band
layer 1 · the elastic

The elastic closure

A notebook gets thicker as it fills with tickets, cards and folded pages. The elastic band across the front edge keeps it closed anyway, and holds a pen. There are no clips or snaps to break.

elastic closure · pen loop

Keep scrolling to take it apart, or tap a layer to hold it.

4

papers — 80 · 100 · 120 · 150 gsm

1890s

the sewing method we still use

1

leather company — vereeniging

20,000+

journals written in, and counting

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