Application: Hobbies & Crafts

  • Arlington®

    If you’re looking for a basic B-grade cloth option, Arlington is our most standard, no-frills choice. Offered in linen and vellum, it features a simple 100% cotton base. It includes a basic protective coating for general abrasion and moisture handling and is suitable for straightforward projects where premium performance isn’t a priority. For customers seeking stronger durability, better print performance, richer finish options, or overall higher-quality results, we recommend considering Apex or Arrestox instead. Both offer significantly improved performance and are better suited for professional-grade book covers, premium packaging, and demanding production environments.

  • Assuan

    Assuan is a tissue lined rayon viscose book cloth cover material with exceptional foil blocking capabilities. This versatile material is available in 29 colors that will give your book or packaging a premium look and feel.

  • Brillianta

    Brillianta® is a simple, lightweight 100% rayon cloth with paper backing. While it comes in a range of standard colors and can be used for general decorative covering and stamping, it’s best suited for projects where elevated durability, premium texture, and higher-end performance aren’t required.

    For customers looking for richer aesthetics, stronger long-term performance, or a more refined finish, we recommend exploring Classic and Cialux. Both provide noticeably superior quality and are the preferred options for premium books, packaging, and high-visibility projects.

  • Bukram P Extra

    Bukram P Extra is an acrylic coated cotton cloth, with paper backing, in vellum and linen finish.

     

    Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso

  • Canvas Extra

    Canvas Extra is an Italian made, 100% cotton book cloth. It comes available in 22 beautiful colors that will give any book or luxury packaging a premium look and feel.

  • Canvas Extra R

    Canvas Extra R is a lighter weight, acrylic coated cotton book cloth with paper backing, in vellum and linen finish.

  • Canvas Extra R Fantasia

    Canvas Extra R FA is a lighter weight, acrylic coated cotton cloth with paper backing. Available in vellum and linen finish.

  • Cowhide

    Cowhide is genuine leather that has been processed to make it thin enough for your turned edge application. It is sold by the side. The sides average approximately 20 square feet per side. There are currently 11 colours and finishes to choose from. We do not sheet the cowhide since there is always a waste factor because of the shape of the side.

    Genuine cowhide leather treated for turned edge(thinner), chrome tanned and re-tanned with a vegetable extract. The leather is dyed with environmentally safe dyes then pigment finished and finally it is sprayed with a water based resin top coat.

  • Excel

    Excel® is a light-weight, saturated cover material offered in Classic, Select, and Design Collections, each with unique color and finish combinations. The Classic Collection features traditional colors with a standard gloss finish and the Select Collection for a wider range of fashion-forward colors with a modern, satin finish.  The Design Collection is perfect when you require the look and finish of linen, but prefer the ease of use of a saturated material.  Excel® has a flexible slim-fitting composition and our library of stocked colors make it the designer’s choice for style with economy and the manufacturer’s ally in machine and hand-made production processes.  Excel® is perfect for creating eye-catching book covers, packaging, and stationery.

  • Exotic

    The Exotic offers a lavish woven fabric crafted with the distinctive Japanese pongee texture, ensuring luxurious quality. Ideal for deluxe books, upscale packaging, and premium photo albums, this high-quality woven cloth elevates any project with its exquisite touch.

  • Kennett

    Kennett natural finish book cloth is a starch-filled cotton with a natural finish. As it is affordable priced and decorable, Kennett cloth can be used in full cover and spine applications. Because it accepts glue well Kennett cloth is suitable for turned-edge work. Kennett cloth would be the choice for those looking to make the first impression that only a true natural finish can offer.

    • Limited wet crock resistance
    • Fair UV light resistance
    • Moderate scuff resistance
    • Moderate abrasion resistance
    • Good durability
    • Kennett 19991 Jet Balck stocked in Cornwall
    • Custom colours available on a make-to-order (MTO) basis
  • Kivar 7

    Kivar 7 is a lightweight latex-saturated covering material that comes in simulated leather and cloth patterns. Kivar 7 is lightweight, durable and economical, and comes in 30 stock colours and 6 embossings.

  • Kivar Sutton

    Kivar Sutton simulates cloth patterns in a lightweight latex-saturated covering material.

    Standard colours are Navy Linen & Black Linen.

  • Lumina

    Lumina is an acrylic coated kraft based cover material with colours inspired by precious stones and metals. Lumina dazzles with its selection of fine shimmery pigments and neutral earthy tones. Lumina is acid free, carbon black free, lignin free, chlorine free, archival and recyclable.

  • Matador

    Matador® is an eco-friendly soft-touch material that offers the lush lavish feel of imported PU without breaking your wallet. The silky matte finish entices your senses and leaves you wanting more. Matador® is a water-based, saturated paper engineered with design enhancing capabilities to allow customization using superior offset and screen printing, foil stamping, blind stamping, and embossing. Feel the difference with Matador®.

  • Metal-X by Corvon

    Metal-X by Corvon has rich, metallic tones and distinctive textures that add to a dramatic visual appeal. Metal-X is a latex-saturated cover material that is ideal for set-up boxes and book coverings.

  • Mirage Vintage®

    Mirage® Vintage is a material designed to replicate the look of aged leather. It’s available in two surface textures and can accept heat-burnished artwork for projects requiring a retro or antique-style appearance. It is commonly used for items such as books, binders, journals, bibles, and various types of packaging.

    For projects where a more premium or refined finish is needed, Montelena is a much better alternative.

  • Natuurlinnen®

    Natuurlinnen™ book cloth offers the aesthetics of an all-natural fabric with an organic look and subtle coloring, making it an excellent choice for today’s environmentally sound projects. Its 100% cotton cloth weave is perfect for coffee table and art books, and accepts foil and blinding stamping seamlessly, offering designers a natural solution with a touch of character. Natuurlinnen is a distinguished cover material choice for books, stationery items, multimedia, CD, and luxury packaging.

  • New Canapetta Extra

    Canapetta book cloth is a medium weight, acid-free & issue lined cover material. It is made of a cotton/linen mixture which gives it a textured and natural feel. Recommended for books, repairs, cloth-covered enclosures, and new cases for books.

  • Paradise

    Paradise book cloth is a new two tone fabric suitable for packaging, books, photo albums. It comes available in pastels and vibrant colours.

     

    Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso

  • Pellaq Iguana

    Pellaq Iguana is a Latex-saturated, high gloss, simulated leather cover material that comes in high-end iridescent reptile patterns.

    •Colorfast and moisture resistant.
    •Offered in enticing visuals, reminiscent of leather in bold or subtle reptile patterns: Lizard, Croco, Mallory, Pinseal, Glean and premium Iguana
    •Offers a scratch resistant, high gloss surface

  • Prestige®

    Prestige® combines the luxury of suede and the richness of velvet, with unparalleled quality and consistency. Available in range of classic reds, blues, and browns as well as contemporary pinks, oranges and greens, the Prestige® collection offers the perfect color to meet your design goals.  With exquisite foil and blind stamping abilities, decorative graphics can easily be applied to create distinctive, eye-appealing covers for products exclusivity across applications: box wraps, photo mattes, slipcases and hardcover books.

  • Radiance®

    Radiance® is a fashion-forward line with a brilliant, jewel tone, shimmer that radiates from a luminous, color shifting, topcoat. Offered in 9 chic colors, an array of modern textures, and both Plush (soft touch) and Polish (high gloss) finishes, Radiance® glistens with flair. The bold colors radiate through a coating of fine metallic pigments, offering a stunning shimmer effect and a brilliantly polished look to luxury packaging, jewelry boxes, cosmetics, accessories, multi-media, yearbooks, journals, diaries and more.

  • Rainbow 80 Hemp

    Rainbow® 80 Hemp is an 80#, 100% PCW (Post Consumer Waste) Kraft that maintains exceptional stamping and printing capabilities in a diverse and environmentally friendly cover material. Rainbow® 80 is well-known as the market leader in covering material for full cover, side, spine, and endleaf for hardcover books, and makes a fine packaging wrap for a variety of industries such as wine & spirits, fragrance, fashion, apparel, food, etc.

    Rainbow® 80 makes the perfect canvas for screen printing, UV, and offset printing, or for decorating with blind or foil stamp. For optimal digital printing, custom Digital Black and Digital Opaque colors offer HP Indigo Certified options.

  • Rainbow Essex

    Essex combines 80# is a dyed-through kraft with a subtle print and tactile cloth embossing, giving a linen-like visual that’s intended for packaging and book covers requiring minimal strength. Unfortunately, this product is currently discontinued.

  • Rainbow Exposé®

    Exposé™ is a straightforward dyed-through kraft paper with a soft-touch surface. It performs adequately for basic uses such as boxes, slipcases, game boards, bags, albums, and general packaging. It is fully recyclable and offers a budget-friendly option for standard applications.

    For customers looking for a more refined appearance, stronger performance, and overall better value, we recommend Mano as the preferred alternative.

  • Rainbow LX (Rainbow 9)®

    Rainbow® LX is a functional covering option suitable for standard applications where basic durability and flexibility are acceptable. It is available in various colors, and its intended to meet very basic needs. Rainbow® LX may be considered for projects with limited performance demands or where cost and availability are primary considerations, but for a more impressive option, we’d suggest considering Titan, our newest offering.

  • Setalux

    Setalux® book cloth is a tissue lined filament viscose with silk appearance. It comes available in a wide choice of colors and it is ideal for the most prestigious books, luxury packaging, and high-end applications. It is offset printable with great results.

  • Setalux Metal

    Setalux® Metal book cloth is a tissue lined filament viscose with a silk appearance and metallic finish. Setalux Metal is available in 18 beautiful colors.

  • Sierra®

    Sierra® book cloth offers a classic, natural fabric alternative, through the combination of dyed rayon cloth and light-weight, tissue-paper backing, making it the perfect choice when the distinct look of natural cloth is desired. Sierra® is the perfect cover material choice for hardcover books, photo albums, journals, packaging and deluxe editions, as well as the best-selling choice for cloth on trade book spines.  Produced with a tissue paper backing to eliminate flaking and glue overflow, makes Sierra® easy to use.  Sierra® provides designers contemporary and distinct covering options.

  • Silktouch Thermo by Skivertex

    Silktouch Thermo features the look and exceptionally soft feel of nubuck and plush leathers.

  • Skivertex

    Skivertex is a simulated leather cover material that comes in 20 patterns for a total of 318 offerings. It is also known as Kivar-9.

  • Skivertex Ultra

    Skivetex Ultra is a latex saturated, nylon reinforced decorative cover material that comes in 22 colours through 6 embossings.

  • Sports Cover Golf

    Just as the dimples on a golf ball increase its Magnus force, adding this signature pattern to your sports and multimedia packaging is sure to give your design a lift! If you’re looking to attract golf aficionados far and wide, drive an ace with Golf Sports Cover®, a textured cover material that achieves one of the world’s most renowned sporting patterns by adding a special embossing and coating to its white saturated substrate base. Choose Golf Sports Cover® for a look that’s not just an art, it’s a science.

  • Summit by Skivertex

    Summit by Skivertex is a durable latex saturated cover material with great visuals. It is a great alternative to expensive cloth.

  • Taratan II

    Taratan II is a 0.35mm Polyurethane premium bonded leather. It is unsurpassed in quality and durability. Taratan II has the look, feel and smell of genuine leather because it is tannery made. The cowhide fibers used in producing the Taratan II come from the tanning process when the hides are brought to a uniform thickness.

  • Tasmania

    Tasmania book cloth is a popular tissue lined rayon viscose with a textured and natural finish. Durable and colorfast, it is recommended for books, photo albums, catalogs, folders, binders.

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