Leathers and Grains
At Leonard’s, we use real leathers, cut from real hides. For more information, please see our “Why Leathers” page.
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Click on the different tabs below to see examples of the different kinds of grains on our leathers, and all the colors of our various leathers, along with some samples.
- Pebble Cowhides
- Thick Cowhides
- Smooth Cowhides
- Embossed Cowhide
- Hand-Dyed Calf
- Smooth Goat
- Barcelona Goat
- Sokoto Goat
- Capra Goat
- Hand-Dyed Natural Goat
- Kangaroo
- Grains
Pebble Grain Cowhides
Here are the pebble grain cowhides, a beautiful leather with a lightly-embossed tight grain and a finish that’s easy to keep clean. They are soft and flexible, but still durable, and they come in 21 different colors:
Dark Purple, Burgundy, Dark Red, Red Bibles
Dark Purple, Burgundy, Dark Red, and Red Pebble Grain Cowhide Bibles
Hand-Dyed, Smooth Grain English Calfskin
This leather has a smooth feel and an antiqued mottled look. This is also a tooling leather, and we use it often for hardcover antique books as well as for softcover personal Bibles. It is durable and “breaks in well” so it feels great in your hand.
Capra Grain Goatskins
This is a fine archival, vegetable-tanned bookbinding leather with a shrunken grain. It is strong, flexible, has a beautiful grain, and feels great in your hand. The difference between Capra Grain and Sokoto goatskin is that Capra has a smaller and more even grain, and Sokoto has a wild grain.