Walnut Brown Buttero Leather Cover

The brown people mean when they say leather notebook

A warm mid-brown, dyed through Buttero, with the grain visible under the colour. It is the least surprising thing in the range and it is the one we cut most of.

Because it starts mid-tone, the first year reads as depth rather than transformation. The spine and the front corner go darker, the flat panels follow, and at no point does it look like a different cover from the one you bought. Natural Buttero and Freedom are for people who want the colour to be an event; this is for when the notebook should be the event.

The bifold is the slim shape: two panels, a modular elastic through the spine, two or three thin notebooks depending on thickness, and nothing folded over the fore-edge.

2.2–2.4 mm and firm, so it holds flat on your knee while you write.

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.