Olive Buttero Leather Cover

Green that has brown in it from the beginning

Olive, dyed through Buttero. Green on vegetable-tanned leather never stays pure — there is tan underneath pushing it warmer — and we would rather that were said out loud than discovered in month three.

What it means in practice: it arrives olive with a yellow cast and moves toward moss. Daylight speeds it up. Two green covers a year apart are not the same colour, and neither of them is the colour on the screen in front of you now.

The bifold keeps it simple: two panels, an elastic through the spine, two or three thin notebooks on the modular system, no flap over the fore-edge.

2.2–2.4 mm, firm enough that the cover stands on a desk instead of slumping.

The notebook is held on an elastic cord running through the spine, so the block has to bend around the cord. That means softcover notebooks — Midori MD, Stalogy 018, Hobonichi Techo and Cousin, and most sewn softcover journals. Hardcover notebooks do not fit, whatever the outside measurements say.

Made to order

• Fits A5 or A6 notebooks — choose the size that matches the book you already use
• Size: A6 — 158 mm tall, 250 mm wide open, about 120 mm closed; A5 — 220 mm tall, 350 mm wide open, about 170 mm closed
• Made in Vilnius, ships in 5–7 working days
• Free foil personalisation
• A choice of 14 elastics, with one spare included

The standard cover uses a modular elastic system and can carry two or three thin notebooks, depending on their thickness. If you need another layout, we can add extra holes and extra elastics before cutting.

Personalisation is free: up to 10 characters — initials, a name, a date or a short word — in gold foil, silver foil, or blind debossing with no foil at all. It is placed in the bottom right corner of the front panel, and the impression is permanent: it grows more visible as the leather around it darkens.

The SLOWLINES logo is stamped in the finish you choose for your text: gold foil with gold, silver with silver, blind debossing with no foil on either. We do not mix the two.