New Leather and Paper!

Working with genuine leather can be interesting! As we've said before, genuine leather is not like Pringles, where everything is guaranteed to be the same size, nor is it like toilet paper. It's the real thing, and there's waste along the edges, real marks of originality on the skin itself (we do avoid holes!) and variation in the thickness of the leather.


But sometimes, we get some really wonderful stuff in, and we want you to be the first to know it. In the last week, we've picked up some beautiful skins of pink, brown, or turquoise, partial hair-on cowhide. This is for the guy or gal who really wants something different for Christmas! The effect is a sky-and-clouds look for the turquoise, a Neapolitan ice cream look for the pink, and a rocky road ice cream look for the brown.


Sometimes we'd wondered what it would be like to bind Bibles in a skin with the fur still clinging to it, but we'd always decided it really wouldn't work well. But this is flexible enough for a Bible, does show some of the skin, and gives us room to fold over the corners without getting hair on the glue. You can be the first (and only) one on your block with this fabulous skin covering your Bible! (Think of the animal skins on the tabernacle.)



We also got in some great new lambskin in black or navy, and a wide selection of special papers, marbled, printed, and satin that can be used for end pages or a very special leather & paper hardcover binding. If you have a special children's book you've been storing from your past that would be a good Christmas present if it were fixed up or restored, now's the time to brush it off and send it to us.

Margie L. Haley, Administrative Assistant
Leonard's Book Restoration Station
(574) 652-2151
www.leonardsbooks.com