Bulk Order & White Label Leather Journals: Your Brand, Our Craftmanship

Three models

Which model do you need?

Every order here is one of three models. The difference is what happens to Hibrkraft's own mark on the product, and how much of the design is already decided. Pick the row that matches what you have today.

Side by side

Bulk order, white label and private label, compared

All three run through the same workshop and the same craftsmen. What changes is who owns the design and whose name ends up on the product.

Construction

What is actually being manufactured

The three models differ in whose name ends up on the product. They do not differ in how the book is built — every unit, in all three, is made to the same construction by the same craftsmen.

Dijahit, bukan dilem. Sewn, not glued. Paper is folded into signatures (katern), punched, and sewn one section at a time with waxed thread. Sewing costs more than gluing. Two consequences follow, and both can be checked by opening a finished unit rather than taken on trust: the book opens flat without being held, and the spine does not crack after some years.

Structures executed

What machines do, and what hands do

Named rather than implied. Cutting, pressing and laser engraving are machine operations. Binding, stitching and finishing are not.

That division carries one practical consequence for a buyer: because the sewing is hand work, a failure of the sewing is the workshop's own error rather than a tolerance. It is repaired at no charge for twelve months, and no receipt is required.

Specification

Materials, named

Stated as specification rather than adjective. Leather grade and paper weight are the two figures that most often decide whether a sample is approved or sent back.

Leather

Leather is sourced from Indonesian tanneries in Magelang, Garut and Malang. Eight colours are held as stock — cognac, dark brown, black, navy blue, forest green, burgundy, tan and natural — and colour beyond that range is formulated rather than selected, which is how the Pantone match described above was reached. Clients may supply their own material, subject to prior confirmation.

Paper

Interiors are printed to order — calendars, letterheads, tables, or the client's own layout. Thread is waxed, in linen or dedicated bookbinding thread, and thread colour is specified by the client alongside the leather.

The catalogue size is A5, given as 15 × 21 cm; custom work takes any size, and the range is set out in the journal size guide.

Cost

Pricing

Baseline figures for a standard A5 genuine-leather journal. Actual pricing moves within a tier depending on the leather, marking method and packaging you choose.

• Under 12 units: $50 per unit
• 50 units: $30 per unit
• 100 units: $25 per unit
• 1,000 units: $20 per unit
• 5,000 units: $15 per unit

PU (synthetic) leather runs roughly 50% cheaper than the figures above. For fewer than 50 units, use our standard custom notebook service instead. What moves the price inside a tier is decided on its own page: material and colour, logo and branding technique, and packaging.

Sampling

$50 deposit for sample development, excluding shipping. This deposit applies toward your first production order.

Payment

Sample

100% upfront, $50 minimum deposit.

Production

50% deposit to begin, 50% balance before shipping.

Methods

Bank transfer (Indonesian banks for domestic, international wire for overseas), or PayPal.

How many

Minimum order quantity, by order type

One table, every minimum we quote. Every figure below already belongs to the page that owns it — this table only collects them in one place.

One minimum per order type, and this table is the only place they are stated. Every other page in this section links here rather than repeating a figure.

Crossing the border

Shipping, export documentation and duty

Every order leaves the same workshop in Bogor, West Java. What changes between a domestic order and an export order is the carrier, the paperwork, and who pays the duty at the other end — stated here because it is usually discovered late.

The export minimum is not a pricing preference. It is the point at which freight and export paperwork stay worthwhile per unit, which is why it applies to bulk order, white label and private label alike — the same figure appears in the minimum order table above for that reason.

Before batch two

What a repeat order actually depends on

A first order tests whether a workshop can make the thing. A second tests whether it can make the same thing again. These are the three questions brands ask before they put their own name on it, answered with work that is already finished.

Colour that has to match, not approximate

BCS Logistics ordered 100 units on one absolute condition: the orange had to be their corporate Pantone, and “close” was not acceptable. It took several rounds of custom formulation. The reason it was possible is that the leather is dyed here rather than chosen from a supplier's swatch book — which is the difference between matching a brand colour and finding the nearest one in stock.

Consistency between one batch and the next

Leather is a hide, and colour varies across a single hide before it varies between orders. A batch is therefore cut from adjacent areas of the same skin rather than wherever the pattern falls most economically. This is the most common reason a second order looks different from the first, and it is a cutting decision, not a dye problem.

A delivery date that is fixed

BKKBN Sulawesi Utara ordered 200 sets — red hardcover with silver foil emboss, matching pen, custom rigid gift box — to a firm date, for delivery across islands. All 200 arrived on schedule. Full accounts of both jobs are in case studies and testimonials.

How long each stage takes

If a unit is wrong

Every unit is inspected individually before packing rather than sampled by batch. Defective units are replaced free of charge; the buyer pays only the shipping on the replacement.

What is declined, said plainly

Three kinds of enquiry are turned down rather than quoted badly: orders under 50 units, which are directed to the custom notebook service instead; buyers whose decision is lowest price alone, because this is handwork and it will not win that comparison; and turnarounds too short to sample properly.

Exclusivity, stated before it becomes a dispute

An NDA is signed where one is required. But a similar design may be produced for another client, and both parties are told if that happens. True exclusivity is a licensing discussion, not a default of the order. This is said here rather than in a contract later, because a brand building a catalogue on these books needs to know it at the quotation stage.

A finished example

What a partner's mark looks like on a finished book

Trevi is one of the workshop's own product lines. The edition photographed here was produced with GNID and carries both marks, which makes it a co-brand rather than a white label — under the white label model in the table above, every Hibrkraft mark comes off. It is shown because it is the clearest finished evidence of the thing a brand is actually buying: a cover, a closure, a label, and an insert system a customer refills.

Three things in these photographs are decisions a partner makes rather than defaults: the leather colour, the closure — here an elastic rather than the leather tie shown earlier on this page — and whether the book is a fixed block or refillable. Trevi is refillable: the paper inserts sit in the cover and are replaced one at a time, so the cover is bought once and the inserts recur. For a brand, that is a different commercial shape from a book sold whole.

The collaboration itself is set out on programs and partnerships, which is where reseller and collaboration terms live rather than here.

Five pages

Where the detail lives

Each page below does one job. Open the one that matches what you're deciding right now.

Process White label process The six steps from first message to delivered stock, and the artwork we need from you. Requirements Private label requirements Material standards, brand guidelines, IP and NDA — what has to be agreed before the first unit is cut. Schedule Bulk ordering guide Counting backward from your delivery date, and what most often delays a batch. Combining models Mixed bundles Several models in one order, and how the minimum is counted across them. Retail packing Retail-ready product Barcodes, hang tags and labelling — what a retailer receives in one box.

Material, branding technique and packaging are decided on their own pages, not here: material and colour, logo and branding options, and packaging.