A8M5 Loose Leaf Notebook Black Horse Leather
Item details
- Color pattern
- Black
• Three warm gold-tone circular snap fasteners with concentric engraved detail
• Six polished silver-tone rings on a flat-opening leather spine
• Symmetrical wavy slots, pen insert board, and black edge finishing
Type: Compact A8M5 loose-leaf leather notebook
Size: Pocket-scale A8M5 format; 2.64 in (6.7 cm) inner pages; 0.63 in (1.6 cm) rings
Materials: Black horse butt leather exterior; vegetable-tanned leather interior; black stitching; gold-tone snaps; silver-tone rings
Finish/color: Deep near-black semi-gloss exterior; dark charcoal-black matte-to-satin interior
Closure: Three gold-tone circular snap fasteners; three-piece detachable cover, binder, and insert
Carry it in a pocket or small bag for quick notes, lists, and card storage; it opens flat and stays slim. The pocket-scale body is roughly palm-sized, pairing easily with everyday pens and small leather goods.
Everyday desk notes
Pocket planning
Travel journaling
Studio sketching
Small list and card keeping
• Wipe the leather with a soft dry cloth; avoid soaking.
• Keep away from prolonged moisture, direct heat, and rough abrasion.
• Store closed with pages clean and hardware dry.
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A closer look
This is a compact A8M5 loose-leaf notebook with a black Japanese Shinise horse butt leather exterior and a Buttero vegetable-tanned leather interior. The closed form is a portrait-oriented rectangle with softly rounded corners and a wrap-style front cover. The exterior color is a deep, near-black shade; its tight, fine-grained surface has a semi-gloss sheen that produces soft dark-gray reflected highlights along the folds and curved edges. The leather looks smooth and closely fibered rather than heavily pebbled, with an even surface across the front, spine, and corner turns.
The outer construction shows dense black hand-sewn perimeter stitching that follows the rounded edges and continues along the spine; the thread is evenly seated and the cut edges are finished in black. The closed cover carries three visible warm gold-tone circular snap fasteners along the left closure area, each with a subtle concentric engraved circular detail but no legible marking. Additional matching fasteners are visible on the opposite side when the cover is opened flat, supporting the three-piece detachable arrangement. The spine is rounded, tightly layered, and closely fitted, with a smooth transition from the front cover to the back cover. No readable printed text or logo is visible.
Inside, the layout is symmetrical, with left and right dark charcoal-black leather panels. Each panel has a single wavy, shallow cut slot that forms a slim card or insert pocket; the cuts are clean-edged and mirror each other. Down the center is a six-ring binder mechanism with polished silver-tone rings stated as 16 mm German silver K rings; the rings are bright and reflective, mounted through the leather spine. The interior Buttero vegetable-tanned leather has a matte-to-satin finish, a smooth surface, and a subtler sheen than the exterior. The notebook opens flat, and the spine stays closely aligned when open.
The notebook uses 67 mm inner pages and includes a pen insert board; the page format is compact. In the filled views, a thick block of off-white cream pages is visible inside the black cover, with clean-cut page edges and the leather wrapping closely around the page block. The three-piece detachable construction allows the cover, binder, and insert components to be separated. The overall size is pocket-scale for an A8M5-format loose-leaf notebook, and the ring size is 16 mm; no weight value is specified, and no exact sheet-count capacity is stated beyond the 67 mm page format and 16 mm ring size.
Visible finishing details include reinforced rounded corners, continuous black edge finishing, and stitching that remains uniform along straight runs and curved corners. The hardware seats flush against the leather, with the gold-tone snaps contrasting against the black cover and the polished silver rings forming the central focal point. Surface uniformity is high on both exterior and interior panels, with no visible heavy grain variation or loose threads in the shown angles; the leather shows a soft, close fit at the folds, and the edges remain clean and smoothly finished. The design is a compact, flat-opening loose-leaf leather notebook with a Kawacoya-pattern layout, black exterior, dark interior, gold-tone snap closures, and silver ring hardware.
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