Faux Leather
Alpha Aston®
A top-of-the-line synthetic leather cover material, Alpha Aston is a thermo-sensitive, non-woven cover material offering the supple feel of leather with a matte, soft-touch finish. Aston is available in a collection of chic, vibrant colors allowing customers to design with energy and originality. Offering an excellent surface for stamping and burnishing, and containing sustainable properties—CPSIA and REACH 161 complaint, solvent and heavy metal-free, and passing all SGS requests— Aston brings a sophisticated level of design to the luxury stationery, packaging, and book markets.
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.
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.
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.
Mirage Classic®
Mirage® Classic is the base line of Mirage®, an environmentally friendly, acrylic coated material that offers the same style and heat-burnishing qualities of a PU product. While additional print and embossing designs are included in our other Mirage® lines, Mirage® Classic delivers the simplicity of a classic, antique, matte finish with a perfectly flush, solid color, providing a clean slate for your own creative designs. Mirage® Classic is most commonly used as a cover material for books, journals, bibles, CD/multimedia packaging, jewelry boxes, and more.
Mirage Corsica®
Mirage® Corsica is designed to resemble the revered traits of old softened leather, bringing a sense of comfort and familiarity to your design projects. This material is first crafted with a water base, color coat, and special top coat that’s designed for a lush, soft feel. Print and texture is added to give the appearance of either lightly worn or heavily cracked leather, whichever characteristic is more relevant to your design goals. Mirage® Corsica is suitable for covering books, bibles, binders, journals, luxury packaging and more.
Mirage Distressed®
As timeless as the stories it protects, Mirage® Distressed gives your projects and designs that antiquated look that never goes out of style. The subtle embossing pattern reproduces the appearance of naturally distressed leather, but for a fraction of the cost. Mirage® Distressed is perfect for covering bibles, religious books, photo books, yearbooks, luxury packaging, photo mount, diaries and journals.
Mirage Pescara®
Mirage® Pescara takes the colors and simplicity of our Classic line to a higher level. Designed with a subtle Pescara print and a special, soft-touch, coating — an inviting touch and natural finish — Pescara gives you the look, feel, and heat burnishing effects of real leather while complying with our strict ecologically sound production methods. Mirage® Pescara adds exciting visual and tactile appeal to your books, bibles, journals, packaging, and more, without compromising on cost or the environment.
Mirage Vintage®
Mirage® Vintage emulates the weathered appearance of aged leather. With two different textures to choose from and the addition of your own heat-burnished design, Mirage® Vintage can help you create retro or antique-style packaging to capture age-old tales by wrapping it around books, binders, journals, bibles, luxury packaging and more.
Pellaq by Skivertex
Pellaq is a high gloss & scratch resistant simulated leather. It available in bold or subtle reptile patterns and is colorfast and moisture resistant.
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
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 Cambric
Skivertex Cambric is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)
Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Firenze
Skivertex Firenze is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)
Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Kidskin
Skivertex Kidskin is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).
This latex-saturated covering material is available in 318 standard offerings. Skivertex is an industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Sanigal
Skivertex Sanigal is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9)
It is a Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Vellin
Skivertex Vellin is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).
This latex-saturated covering material is available in 318 standard offerings. Skivertex is an industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
Skivertex Vicuana
Skivertex Vicuana is a European inspired, premium grade, simulated leather covering material (may also be referred to as Kivar® 9).
Latex-saturated covering material available in 318 standard offerings. An industry standard for luxury and decorative packaging applications.
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