Prugna Pueblo Leather Cover

Prugna: wine-dark, and dusty until you handle it

Badalassi Carlo brush the grain side of Pueblo instead of polishing it, so Prugna — plum, in Badalassi Carlo's own naming — arrives matte and slightly dusty, with the fibres visible in the surface and no shine anywhere on it.

Then your hands get to it. The fibres lie down where you hold the cover, the tone drops into a deeper wine, and the spine and the front corner pull ahead of the rest within the first fortnight. A scratch rubbed with a thumb usually disappears.

Dyed through with no coating, so there is nothing on top to wear pale at the corners the way finished leather does.

Pueblo is thinner than our other hides at 2.0–2.2 mm. On a bifold that means a slimmer closed block and a cover that softens in the first week rather than the first season.

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.