Cover Materials

COVER MATERIALS

All our albums 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 all our cover materials. The swatches below are annotated to indicate what we offer on that material: B: blind embossing, F: foil embossing. Caution: With over 500 material/foil combinations, for technical reasons some may not work in practice: we will advise if your selection proves unsuitable. 

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

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

Genuine leather covers are our specialty. We buy only the finest hides, which we then selectively cut and process to enhance their inherent quality.

Please note, natural growth and range markings are a feature of our Vintage Leathers and make every book, box and album unique. Please choose from our Classic and Contemporary ranges if you require a "grain corrected" finish.

Contemporary Genuine Leathers

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

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, especially in the larger sizes, 12x12 and up, 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.

Coastal Linens

With a finely woven texture and subtle hues, our linen fabrics Driftwood and Breeze are perfect for babies, boudoir and beachy weddings. To capture the distinctive weave we've photographed them as they come off the roll, but the weave will run square to the cover like all our woven fabrics. 

Vibrant Linens

Beautiful showstopper fabrics that demand to be seen.