Leather Covers for Hobonichi Techo A6

A Hobonichi Techo Cover in Leather, A6

The Original is a small book with a lot of pages in it, thick for its size. On our cover it takes one elastic band to itself. The band runs through the middle spread, so the Techo opens fully inside the leather, and the cover closes over it in a bag.

Techo Original Measurements

• Hobonichi Techo Original — 4.1" × 5.8" (10.5 × 14.8 cm), true A6.
• Our A6 cover, closed — 4.5" × 6.7" (11.4 × 17 cm): about 4 mm at each side and 1 cm above and below.
• Hobonichi Techo Cousin — 5.8" × 8.3" (14.8 × 21 cm). Twice the page and a different cover: Cousin covers.
• Pocket notebooks — 3.5" × 5.5" (8.9 × 14 cm). Smaller than A6; they have the Pocket Size and Field Notes covers.

The A6 cover goes in a coat pocket and most small bags. It will not go in the back pocket of jeans.

Pocket, Coat or Bag

Most of our A6 covers have three elastic bands, which is room for the Techo, a list notebook and a card insert before the cover starts to bulge. Some models close with an outer band, others with a strap or a snap. If the Techo is all you carry, a slimmer model with fewer bands keeps it closer to the size of the book itself.

Other A6 Books on the Same Bands

A6 is a shared size, so the next band can take a Midori MD A6, a Stalogy 365Days A6 or an Apica CD-10 as easily as a second Techo. Our own A6 paper refills come plain, lined, dotted and colored, as a weekly planner and as watercolor sheets. A leather insert with card slots turns the whole thing into something close to a wallet.

A Year Later

The Techo is dated; the cover is not. When the year runs out, the finished book comes off its band and the next one goes on, and the leather carries on with a year of handling in it. Crazy Horse is waxed rather than painted. New, it marks easily. A scratch shows as a lighter line, and rubbing it brings most of the color back.

Colors, Names and Small Extras

Pick from six leathers: Black Onyx, Chestnut, Forest Green, Bordeaux, Cognac and Caramel. Any of them can be personalized with initials or a short name before checkout. Journal charms hang from the closure elastic, a pen case keeps a pen with the Techo, and the leather journal covers page shows every size we make, side by side.

Hobonichi Techo is a trademark of its owner. Asperaria is an independent maker with no tie to Hobonichi and no endorsement from it; the name describes fit, nothing more.