Red Buttero Leather Cover

Red you can find in a bag without looking

A saturated true red, dyed through Walpier's Buttero rather than sprayed on the face. Under the dye is vegetable-tanned leather that keeps working, so this red does not fade toward pink — it goes deeper, and a shade browner at the corners, over the first year.

The bifold is the slim one: front panel, spine, back panel, and a modular elastic system running through the spine that will hold two or three thin notebooks depending on their thickness. Nothing folds over the fore-edge, so the book opens the moment you move the elastic aside.

It is the least discreet cover we make, and that is the reason to buy it. On a desk with five other notebooks this is the one your hand goes to. If you would rather it did not, Burgundy Buttero is the same leather with none of the noise.

2.2–2.4 mm and firm, so you can write on it standing up without a desk.

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.