Leather-Lined Goatskin Style
This is where you can choose the specifications for your own custom leather-lined Bible. This special style is our most flexible cover, with a handsome look and texture.
In 2022, when a few of our suppliers went out of business, we were scrambling to find new ones and we now have some great choices for you — a new line of very beautiful lambskin liners (with some new colors!) and a selection of high quality acid-free papers that are close color matches to the lambskins.
Also, since we started making this style, we have added two more goatskins as choices for the exterior of your Bible. Besides the original River Grain goatskin, we also use Capra Grain goatskin and Sokoto goatskin.
For information about how we developed this style, see our article.
Click here to go straight to the price list / order form for the Leather-Lined Style.
Standard Features
- The outer leather is our special River Grain goatskin, or we can now use Sokoto goatskin or Capra grain goatskin.
- It is lined on the inside with soft, smooth genuine lambskin.
- The spine imprinting will say simply “Holy Bible” (or a short alternate title, such as “Santa Biblia”), in gold or silver to match the page edge gilding. The Sokoto or Capra can be blind-stamped as well.
- We can also add the version abbreviation to the spine. This will give the Bible a clean look.
- At the bottom edge of the spine will be our Leonard’s logo stamp, to remind you where your great cover came from.
Style Limitations
- The only customization options for this style are the ones listed.
- At this time, we use only the River Grain, Sokoto, and Capra grain goatskins and the lambskin. Our other leathers are not interchangeable.
- We do not use customers’ leathers for this style.
- We can imprint a name on the front, and on the Sokoto or Capra grain, we can also do some blind-tooling.
- We can leave off imprinting, change the number of ribbons, or leave off our name / logo if requested.
- River Grain Goatskin
- Sokoto Goatskin
- Capra Grain Goatskin
- Barcelona Goatskin
- Lambskin Lining
- End Pages
- Color Combos
- Ribbons
- Yapp Size
River Grain Goatskins
This is a good-looking real goatskin leather particularly well suited for our leather-lined style, and you can see, it comes in a variety of beautiful colors. We don’t recommend it for a heavy Bible because the result may be too floppy, but it works for a small to medium Bible.
Sokoto Goatskins
We were thrilled to begin offering this beautiful leather in both a standard (non-leather-lined) style and leather-lined. It performs well either way, and because it is a tooling leather, we can blind-tool it. We don’t recommend it for a tiny Bible, but it works for a medium to large one. Below are some examples for reference, but for more examples, see our Leathers and Grains page under Sokoto Goat.
Capra Grain Goatskins
Like the Sokoto Goat, we offer this beautiful leather in both a standard (non-leather-lined) style and leather-lined style. It performs well either way. Below are some examples for reference, but for more examples, see our Leathers and Grains page under Capra Goat.