Printing
Africa
Africa is a 100% cotton, book cloth cover material with a natural finish. This Italian made cloth has a paper backing to promote adhesion on your hardcover book or luxury packaging. Africa is available in 18 beautiful colours and is very receptive to foil stamping and screen printing.
Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso
Alpha Goat®
Alpha Goat® is a thermo-sensitive, non-woven cover material that offers a plush touch and leather-like look. The unique feel of PU combined with authentic textures in modern leather tones, makes it the designers’ choice for hardcover books, diaries, bibles, hang tags, luxury boxes, and multimedia packaging. Alpha Goat® is CPSIA and REACH 161 complaint, solvent and heavy-metal free, and passes all SGS requests, making it the designer’s choice for a sustainable, quality, synthetic leather covering material.
Alpha Skiver®
Impressionable, soft, and sooth, Alpha Skiver® brings luxury covering designs to a whole new level of appeal. Available in an extensive selection of contemporary colors and boasting an excellent surface for blind stamping, foil stamping, and heat burnishing, Skiver® is the modern designer’s choice for quality, synthetic leather covering options. Part of the Alpha series top-of-the-line PU cover material, its supple feel and matte, soft-touch finish lends itself to a wide range of stationery and book applications. Skiver® is CPSIA and REACH 161 compliant, contains no solvents or heavy metals, and passed all SGS requests, making it both sustainable and sophisticated— a top designers perfect solution.
Arlington®
Available in linen & vellum, Arlington® book cloth is composed of an odor-free, pH balanced 100% cotton base that meets all ANSI, BMI, and NASTA standards for B-grade cloth, with a protective coating that provides excellent abrasion and water resistance. With its lay-flat characteristics, 64/56 threads per square inch, and exquisite stamping and screen printing capabilities, Arlington® is a great cover material choice for full cover and spine on hardcover books, reference books, loose-leaf binders, photo albums, bibles, diaries, record books, slipcases, arch files, stationery, and various packaging projects.
Arrestox
Perfect for book covers and media packaging, Arrestox® is an aqueous-impregnated, 100% natural cotton cloth. The most recognized name in the industry, Arrestox cloth is extremely durable and performs well in a wide range of publishing and turned edge applications. It is exceptionally functional and accepts glue well. Because Arrestox is easy to decorate you can use the technique of your choice to create unique look and consumer appeal for book cover and packaging applications. Arrestox has excellent stain, mildew and crock resistance. It also has good water resistance, UV light resistance, scuff resistance, and good abrasion resistance.
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.
Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso
Balmoral
Balmoral is a finely woven, starch filled coated book cloth that comes in a range of vibrant colors that is often used for covering high quality books, albums, boxes and stationery. This cover materials smooth coated finish offers an ideal platform for high quality foil decoration.
Brillianta
Available in a wide selection of vibrant, contemporary colors, Brillianta® is the designers’ choice for chic colored book cloth with a natural finish. This 100% rayon cloth is EU REACH compliant with paper backing, adhering to modern product regulations and brand specifications. Brillianta® has a light-weight paper backing that provides manufacturers seamless processing. The brighter, tighter weave of Brillianta® is ideal for decorative covering and stamping on coffee table books, art books, trade book spines, boxes, bibles, encyclopedias, photo albums, binders, multimedia packaging, and more.
Bukram P Extra
Bukram P Extra is an acrylic coated cotton cloth, with paper backing, in vellum and linen finish.
Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso
Bukram P Extra Fantasia
Bukram P Extra Fantasia is an acrylic coated 100% cotton book cloth with a paper backing that is available in vellum and linen finishes.
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.
Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso
Canvas Extra R
Canvas Extra R is a lighter weight, acrylic coated cotton book cloth with paper backing, in vellum and linen finish.
Cialinen
Medium weight, acid-free, and tissue lined. This 100% cotton book cloth has a textured and natural feel. It is recommended for books, repairs, cloth-covered enclosures, and new cases for books. Cialinen 2040 minimum orders start at 5 yards.
Manufacturer: Manifattura del Seveso
Docu Cover II
Docu-Cover II is a latex saturated 17pt paper cover material. Docu-Cover II offers prestige to all your corporate presentations.
It is the product of choice for high quality soft cover binding. Custom colours are available on a make-to-order basis.
Elegance
Elegance Natural Finish Book Cloth is an imported cloth from Italy. It is lustrous, vibrant, glossy, fast-dyed, natural finish, rayon cloth with paper backing. Elegance cloth is made from spun rayon yarn, which is composed of short-length filament threads. This distinctive European looking cloth is colourfast to water, light and abrasion. It is also moderately priced. Elegance processes well on Horauf, Kolbus, WBF Stall and Smith manufacturing equipment.
Because of its versatility, you can use Elegance to create an intricately decorated cover with a striking effect.
Eurobond
The Eurobond is a 0.4mm Polyurethane premium bonded leather. It is unsurpassed in quality and durability. Eurobond has the look, feel and smell of genuine leather because it is tannery made. The cowhide fibers used in producing the Eurobond come from the tanning process when the hides are brought to a uniform thickness.
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.
Fiscagomma Agenda
This Italian cover material gives the luxurious look of leather at a much more affordable price. The surface allows the product to be burnished for a two-tone effect. Heat burnishing conditions are achieved between 350 degrees F to 375 degrees F for 0.5 seconds and a pressure of 2 bars. For heavier embossing a dwell time of 0.7 seconds and a pressure of 3 bars would be recommended.
•Many colours and finishes stocked in Cornwall.
•Endless colour and finish selection from Fiscagomma (Italy).
•Custom colours available on a make-to-order (MTO) basis.Hyflex
Hyflex is a latex reinforced heavy weight material, made with the unique Hyflex® construction designed to provide long life and withstand hard abuse. This design offers a highly flexible sheet, with significant strength and crack resistance. Hyflex® is made to be finished either on or off-line with aqueous or UV topcoats and is designed for many self-supported product applications.
Hyflex® 7
6 mil thickness
Color: White
Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 7 additional embossingsHyflex® 9
9 mil thickness
Color: White
Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 5 additional embossingsHyflex® 12
12.3 mil thickness
Color: White
Embossing: Smooth (Chrome) and 5 additional embossings