Hide & Drink Leather Leuchtturm A5 Notebook Cover
Full-grain leather cover for Leuchtturm 1917 A5 hardcover notebooks. Hand-stitched, bourbon brown, built for daily carry. The cover that gets better every year while the notebooks inside get replaced.
- Material
- Full-grain leather, vegetable-tanned; hand-stitched waxed thread
- Dimensions
- Fits Leuchtturm 1917 A5 (5.75" × 8.25")
- Weight
- 6 oz
- SKU
- WTP-GIFT-HD-A5COVER
Hide & Drink makes full-grain leather goods by hand in Guatemala using vegetable-tanned leather and waxed thread. The A5 cover fits a Leuchtturm 1917 hardcover notebook exactly — the notebook most serious daily writers use, with numbered pages, an index, and ink-resistant paper that handles a good pen without bleed-through.
The leather is bourbon brown, which is the color it starts at. It darkens and develops a patina over months of back-pocket and shirt-pocket carry. Vegetable tanning is the old method — slower, more expensive than chrome tanning, and it produces leather that ages into character rather than cracking and flaking. At five years the cover looks better than it did new.
On a working ranch, the practical case is straightforward: pasture rotation notes, calf weights, breeding dates, vet visit records, water-source observations. A leather cover that survives barn pockets and weathered hands for a decade is a tool, not a decoration. The Leuchtturm insert gets replaced when it fills up — a new one is $20. The cover is indefinite.
Sizing note: fits Leuchtturm 1917 A5 hardcover only (5.75 by 8.25 inches). Moleskine Large is a slightly different dimension and fits loosely. If you use Moleskine, size down to the Medium or go with the A5 Leuchtturm — it’s the better notebook anyway.