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Cover Materials

COVER MATERIALS

All our albums except Portrait Albums and Musée offer the same cover materials and styles. This page is about the materials. The cover styles page explains how to personalise your albums with embossings, cover motifs, photo fronts or wrap-around.

For practical reasons we cannot emboss or laser engrave all our cover materials. The swatches below are annotated to indicate what we offer on that material: B: blind embossing, F: foil embossing, L: laser engraving.

You can order convenient matted swatches for each of the ranges described below (those described as "while stocks last" are excluded).

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Vintage Leathers (NEW)

Earthy leathers that evoke distant, rugged landscapes. Inviting textures that will respond to your touch.

Rust B, F, L

WildernessB, F

StormB, F, L

OutbackB, F

BoulderB, F, L

Sand DuneB, F, L

HavanaB, F

MistB, F, L

Contemporary Genuine Leathers

Specially made for Queensberry by one of France's oldest and finest artisan tanneries.

GraphiteB

Blueberry (out of stock)

Plum (While stocks last)

IronB

Tamarillo (out of stock)

SandstoneB

IvoryB

Classic Genuine Leathers

Beautiful hides, soft to the touch, from one of Europe's leading leather suppliers.

BlackB, F, L

WhiteB, F, L

Brown (While Stocks Last)

Apple Green (While Stocks Last)

SlateB, F

GrapeB, F

Chocolate (While Stocks Last)

Royal BlueB, F

CappuccinoB, F

Cherry (While Stocks Last)

Lots of pages? We choose our cover materials to look good for generations, and that's the way we make our albums. If your album will have 25 pages or more we recommend that you choose one of the genuine leather cover materials described above. Genuine leather is best able to support the spine of an album with the weight of so many pages.

Micro Leathers

Micro Leathers are amongst our most popular cover materials – beautiful textures, lovely colours, and vegan-friendly.

OnyxB, F

InkB, F

Vanilla Bean (While Stocks Last)

HazeB, F

Powder BlueB, F

ShadowB, F

EggshellB, F

Pastel Linens (NEW)

Soft, delicate colours, subtle and unique.

Strawberry FrostingF

Willow F

MilkshakeF

AshF

Pebble F

TaupeF

Coastal Linens (NEW)

With a finely woven texture and subtle hues, our linen fabrics Driftwood and Breeze are perfect for babies, boudoir and beachy weddings! Foils for Driftwood and Breeze: White and Black only.

DriftwoodF,L

OceanF

BreezeF

RiptideF

Vibrant Linens (NEW)

Beautiful showstopper fabrics that demand to be seen.

IndigoF

Chilli F

PapayaF

MerlotF

TuxedoF

IvyF

Classic Library Buckrams

The choice of bookbinders, publishers and libraries for many generations. Affordable beauty, quality and durability.

CarbonB, F, L

Starry NightB, F

Baby BlueB, F

Poppy (While Stocks Last)

GunmetalB, F

PearlB, F, L

Pretty PinkB, F

SilverB, F

MintB, F

Pistachio (While Stocks Last)

Japanese Bookbinding Silks

Beautiful bookbinding silks, delicate and sophisticated, from one of Japan's best mills.

Durability: Silks don't have the strength and durability of some of our other materials, and we strongly suggest keeping silk covers for lighter weight Q-Books, and albums with fewer pages, especially if they’re heavy. We suggest no more than 15 pages (30 sides), although you could go higher with Q-Book lights, or medium weight Pano Flushmounts.