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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-arounds.

We are proud of our materials, which we carefully select from the best quality sources around the world — classic choices for the years ahead. Fine silk bookbinding fabrics from Japan … beautiful hides from France and Germany … exceptional faux leathers and more. If you want to show them all to your clients we offer convenient matted swatches for each of the ranges described below (excluding those described as "while stocks last").

BUY COVER SWATCHES

Contemporary Genuine Leathers

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

Graphite

Blueberry

Plum (While stocks last)

Iron

Tamarillo

Sandstone

Ivory

Classic Genuine Leathers

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

Black

White

Brown (While Stocks Last)

Apple Green (While Stocks Last)

Slate

Grape

Chocolate (While Stocks Last)

Royal Blue

Cappuccino

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.

Onyx

Ink

Vanilla Bean (While Stocks Last)

Haze

Powder Blue

Shadow

Eggshell

Classic Library Buckrams

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

Carbon

Starry Night

Baby Blue

Poppy (While Stocks Last)

Gunmetal

Pearl

Pretty Pink

Silver

Mint

Pistachio (While Stocks Last)

Coastal Linens

With a finely woven texture and subtle hues, our linen fabrics Driftwood and Breeze are perfect for babies, boudoir and beachy weddings! Embossing is not available on this material.

Driftwood

Breeze

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.