We started making leather Bible covers, and that's still the core of the catalog. But over the past several months, a growing number of requests have come in for other sacred texts — a Siddur for a Bar Mitzvah, a quad for a departing missionary, a Mushaf sized for a specific print edition. The craft underneath all of them is the same. What changes is what each tradition actually needs from the object.
The Part That Stays Constant
Full-grain leather, hand-stitched rather than glued, cut and fitted to the exact dimensions of the specific book it's protecting — that process doesn't change based on which text is going inside the cover. A cover built to last through a decade of daily handling needs the same construction whether it's holding a Bible, a Chumash, or a Book of Mormon.
The Part That Changes Every Time
What does change, book to book and tradition to tradition, is everything around that core construction: correct sizing for editions that vary widely even within the same faith, design choices that respect how a given community treats imagery and personalization, and placement of a name or date somewhere that marks the book as someone's without overshadowing the text itself. That part requires listening more than it requires a fixed template — which is exactly why these are handled as individual custom orders rather than mass-produced variants of one design.
What a Custom Order Actually Looks Like
It starts with the specific edition and exact measurements of the book, since sizing varies enough between printings that guessing rarely works. From there, we talk through personalization — what to include, where to place it, and any design preferences specific to the tradition the book belongs to. Nothing goes into production until those details are confirmed directly with the person ordering it.
Why We Haven't Turned These Into Standing Products Yet
Building a full catalog listing for every tradition and edition size would mean guessing at demand and sizing before we actually know what people need. Taking these as individual custom orders lets us get the fit and details right for each specific request first — and if a particular type of order becomes common enough, that's when it makes sense to build it into a standing product.
Starting a Custom Order
If you're looking for a cover for a sacred text outside our current Bible cover collection, our custom order listing is where that conversation starts — share the book, the edition, and what you have in mind, and we'll take it from there.