Why Moleskine Covers?

Most Moleskine artists create their work within the notebook. We create our work around the notebook.

Bruce Chatwin’s famous notebook, the same design as the notebooks used by Hemingway, Picasso, and Van Gogh, has become one of the world’s most popular outlets for artists, authors, and journalists. The Moleskine brand especially has pioneered the notebook’s rise to contemporary popularity. Artist and journaling communities the world-wide-web over are forming to share artistic expressions surrounding the Moleskine medium (see the moleskinerie, skineart.com, and the Japanese moleskine.co). Our contribution to this artistic movement is not to place our art within the notebook, but rather to place our art around the notebook.

The thrust of our art, therefore, is to create leather covers that we can share with Moleskine lovers. We design covers for the classic large and pocket Moleskine notebooks, as well as cahier covers. Using our artistic form, “cincelado del sur,” we use beautiful leather toolwork that turns the cover of the Moleskine into as much of a canvas for us as the inside for other artists.

Genuine Moleskine notebooks, although made in Italy, can be found the world over (in the U.S., simply call your local art store, Barnes&Noble, Borders, or check out the dozens of internet stores that sell Moleskines). Although we especially like the Moleskine brand notebooks, the size has become the standard for many other journal and notebook lines, such as Pen and Ink (found at art suppliers), Handbook Artist (also found at art suppliers), Markings (found at Target), and many more. So although our leather covers can’t be found anywhere else in the world, the notebooks they fit are found everywhere else in the world.