Antique Leather Haggadah Cover, Kaftor for a Kallah, Taupe #1567

Taupe antique leather in design #1567, made in the Kaftor cut. Taupe is the compromise shade in this line: it keeps the light, pale look that people want for a kallah's seder without the starkness of a true white, and the antique finish gives it a soft depth so it does not read as a single flat panel under candlelight.

One version, nothing to select. Practically, taupe is the more forgiving of the pale colours to live with over years of use — a haggadah cover spends two nights a year on a table with wine, charoses and children within reach of it, and the deeper tone is simply less anxious to own. The Kaftor is the women's cut, sized to sit steady in the hand while she reads rather than being propped against a plate.

#1567 is made across the Malchut range as a machzor cover, a siddur cover, a zemiros booklet cover and in chanukah pieces. That makes it a design you can commit to: the haggadah cover at Pesach, the machzor cover before the Yomim Noraim, and the numbers still line up years later.

• Malchut design #1567

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