How Do You Make A Leather Book Cover?
Make a leather cover for your favorite book or to give as a gift to someone special. You can decorate and personalize the cover with tooling and stamping or leave it unadorned. Make a pattern for the book cover by folding a medium- to heavy-weight piece of paper around the existing cover of the closed book. Trim the paper so that ¼ inch extends beyond both the top and bottom of the book. Also trim the vertical edges of the paper so that ¼ inch extends beyond both the front and back covers. Measure the length and the width of the front cover of the book. Use a ruler, pencil and scissors to measure and mark out a rectangle that measures ½ the width of the cover plus ¼ inch and the length of the cover plus ¼ inch. This forms the pattern for the pockets of the cover. Lay the two pattern pieces onto a piece of 4 to 6-oz. leather. See ‘eHow to Cut Leather’ for instructions on marking and cutting out the pattern pieces from the leather. Make sure to cut out two of the rectangular pieces from
