Leather Cover + Diary Set

£215.00

Pair your 2025 Diary with a cover made of fine bridle leather, vegetable-tanned and hand-sewn in the UK. The cover is designed to last for many years, simply swap out your notebook for a fresh refill whenever you need to. The leather lasts years and improves with age.


Our collaboration with Doe Leather

A5 Leather Notebook / Diary Cover in Black bridle leather. Designed to fit perfectly around our Notebook Mark One, Mark Two and Diary, the leather cover can be used again and again. The beautiful bridle leather will only improve with age, as it takes on a patina with use. Since 2018, we have added a subtle elastic band to accommodate larger pens and pencils. The leather pen loops are taken from Doe’s 70-year-old archive of embossed leather swatches, passed down now through three generations. Each of our leather covers has a unique colour loop. Special colour requests subject to availability.

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The Mark+Fold Diary

Our week-view diary gains new converts each year, thanks to quality, simplicity and practicality of our unique design. 

Developed in conversation with our customers and following decades of observations about what works well (and what doesn't), we created our unique diary layout in 2016. 

The simple grid is designed to give you maximum writing space and just enough structure to organise your plans, but without getting in your way. We like to give you the freedom to create your own system, so the light-touch layout feels almost like an invisible frame to hold your notes and plans. Creating an instinctive picture-of-the-week to jog your memory and help you scope out your commitments. Designed in 2016 by Swiss-German typographic designer Catherine Nippe in collaboration with Mark+Fold founder Amy Cooper-Wright.

Details

— A5 format (210x150mm)
— 120 pages, smooth cream paper 
— Week per double-page, with 'zones' to organise your notes
— Year overviews this year and next, plus 8 dot-grid pages for notes
— 120gsm paper perfect for fountain pen
— Thread-sewn layflat binding 

Why you'll love it

Great paper

It all starts with selecting the finest materials. We consider only sustainably-produced papers and consider everything from the feel of the paper in your hands, to its opacity, smoothness and resistance to feathering with fountain pen.

> Our Paper

Layflat binding

A good notebook should open flat without force, for a comfortable writing experience. Our specialist layflat binding combines thread-sewing with cold glue, to retain flexibility. The results speak for themselves — a book that is as robust as it is elegant.

> Our Layflat Binding

Minimal design

Our considered edit of timeless classics are designed to feel intuitive and unobtrusive. We want the design to feel almost invisible, whilst giving you the structure and prompts you need to get things done.

> Our Design Principles

Customer Reviews

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Roma Grant (England, United Kingdom)

Beautiful quality, makes me happy to use the diary. Love the fact the leather cover can also hold a notebook. Would love something to hold it all together with the same aesthetic.

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Robert Pagano (Georgia, United States)
Leather cover

Cover is great. Just a little disappointed that I had to reach out to ask when it would ship, and then all of a sudden it’s the next day

Dear Robert

I am so pleased to hear that you're pleased with your Leather Cover.

Regarding the timing of your delivery, this was a pre-order item so it was shipped as soon as we received stock in from our leather atelier in Walsall. It just so happens that when you sent a follow up email, yours had already been shipped earlier that day, hence it arriving very soon after.

Hope you'll enjoy using it for many years to come. Do come back to us when you need a new notebook or diary refill.

Warm regards
Amy

Amy Cooper-Wright
Founder

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Nadia A. (Florida, United States)
Best Cover Ever!

A quality leather cover for a quality notebook - what more could I want? Absolutely LOVED my Doe Leather cover - it's a beautiful chocolate brown that wraps around my Mark + Fold notebook perfectly. Love, love, love! I can't wait to see how the leather wears and tears with use over the coming years. I would definitely recommend!

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Csaba T. (Budapest, Hungary)

awesome

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Alexis M. (England, United Kingdom)
For those who value a good notebook

The M+F notebook and Doe Leather cover (Brown) is beautifully presented. I always have a notebook to hand. Though I have a digital career the freedom of paper and pen remain unbeatable. My hand written / drawn notes structure my workflow so the availability of quality options matters to me. The Mark + Fold notebooks and cover hit the spot perfectly.

Responsibly made

Plastic-free since 2015

Our paper-based packaging is designed to be re-used, and then recycled. Our glassine envelopes and hand-wrapped bible paper replace single-use plastics.

> Plastic-free Packaging

Transparent manufacture

We proudly share every step of our production process. We work exclusively with specialist printers and book-binders in UK and Europe who share our perfectionism and attention to detail.

> How It's Made