Antique Leather Zemiros Hameforash Cover in Black #1567

Design #1567 is the plainer of the two black antique-leather covers made for the Zemiros Hameforash. Less worked across the face than #1547, it leans on the leather itself, the antique treatment, the depth of the black and the weight of the material in the hand, instead of on ornament. A good number of buyers want exactly that and nothing more.

One version, with no size or nusach to settle. The cover is cut for the Zemiros Hameforash and stays on it. For a sefer that comes out every Friday night and gets opened flat on a crowded table, a leather cover is the difference between boards that fray at the corners inside two years and boards that do not, and black hides the marks a Shabbos table leaves behind.

Like the rest of the antique leather group, this number extends: siddur covers, machzor covers, haggadah covers and Chanukah pieces are all made in it. A man who takes #1567 for his zemiros can add the machzor before Rosh Hashanah and the haggadah before Pesach and have the three sitting together as a set.

• Malchut design #1567
• Material: Leather

Sold by Judaica Square, Lakewood NJ. Free shipping on orders over $75. Returns within 15 days.