This wonderful Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album is handmade in Florence using traditional tools and techniques to emboss and intricately detail the cover’s dragon motif and the spine's dragon flower using real gold leaf. Archival rated to last 100-200 years and more (when properly cared for) you can be assured that your memories will last countless generations with this heirloom family album. Designed to hold up to 62, 4x6 or 5x7 inch photos affixed to cream-colored nicely milled acid-neutral pages the Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album is ideal as a true heirloom family album. The landscape style heirloom family album measures just over 8.5 inches wide, 6.25 inches high and almost two inches thick; a perfect size for viewing by anyone.

The Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album cover measures 8.5 x 6.25 x 1.9 and the pages are 7.9 x 5.75 inches. The leather is hand dyed, highly polished and rubbed to a rich Amaretto Brown. The paper is of an extremely heavy 16.5 mil caliper, is acid-neutral, has virtually no lignin content and bears delightful deckle sawtooth edges. Strong and thin (3.5 mil), semi-transparent, heavily laid, acid-neutral and lignin-free velum interleaves will protect photos from photo to photo contact damage for centuries.

Unique acid-neutral fabric covered endpapers are tastefully appointed in a cocoa colored material that catches light beautifully displaying a luminescent brown swirling effect as the book is opened. The rigid fabric covered endpapers are a whopping 48 mil thick which reduces the chance for wear on the heirloom family album's front and back pages! In addition, the Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album's thick endpages are ideal for adding opening and closing embellishments such as title artwork and a closing passage or inscription (be creative!).

Manufacturing Details
The Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album is made in Florence, Italy from handworked full grain Italian leather (it takes an artisan nearly a full day of work to hand make this acid-neutral heirloom family album). Extensive border details and three embossed bands on the spine are expertly tooled and ornate in this decidedly wealthy style. Real headbands protect the head and tail of the spine from wear and add an attractive element to this expertly designed and crafted work of leather art!

Customization Options
Visually there is no need to add anything (except your treasured memories!) to this Dragonflower Italian Leather Photo Album. We do think that the cocoa colored rigid fabric covered endpages can be easily embellished by you (or us) in your own style. This kind of Customization is pretty straightforward.
That said, we can personalized the heirloom family album's exterior with a name, initials or inscription. Any customization of this kind must be well planned and executed by professional craftspeople as this is not something that any ordinary leathersmith should be trusted with. JOURNALSandBOOKS.com's art department will be happy to develop a realistic and high quality plan for any customization that you require. Note: please understand that customization of the exterior of this acid-neutral heirloom family album could take months; as we would probably send it back to Italy for the work to be performed. Our best leathersmiths are generally booked solid for many months on end!