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Cloth Cover Book Printing

Cloth cover books, also known as fabric-bound or linen-bound books, offer a sophisticated and durable finish, making them a popular choice for high-end publications. Perfect for coffee table books, art and photography collections, special edition fiction, journals, notebooks, and catalogs, these books combine elegance with tactile appeal, providing readers with a luxurious look and feel while protecting the pages within.

At BookPrintingChina, we specialize in affordable and high-quality cloth cover book printing for artists, photographers, brands, authors, and independent creators. Choose full-color printing for vibrant, striking visuals or black-and-white printing for a timeless, elegant look. Our offerings include a wide range of sizes, fabrics, interior papers, and binding options, along with luxurious add-ons like foil stamping, embossing, debossing, gilded edges, and tip-in images, ensuring each book is beautifully crafted, durable, and uniquely distinctive.

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Cloth Hardcover Book Printing

Our cloth hardcover book printing features a sewn text block securely attached to a rigid 2–3 mm gray board wrapped in premium cloth, ensuring both durability and a sophisticated, elegant appearance. To elevate the cover’s aesthetic, we offer a variety of enhancement options, including foil stamping, embossing, debossing, tip-in images, and more. These treatments add visual impact and tactile appeal, making each book not only sturdy and functional but also a beautifully crafted, high-end publication that stands out.

Cloth Hardcover Book Printing

Our cloth hardcover book printing features a sewn text block securely attached to a rigid 2–3 mm gray board wrapped in premium cloth, ensuring both durability and a sophisticated, elegant appearance. To elevate the cover’s aesthetic, we offer a variety of enhancement options, including foil stamping, embossing, debossing, tip-in images, and more. These treatments add visual impact and tactile appeal, making each book not only sturdy and functional but also a beautifully crafted, high-end publication that stands out.

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Cloth Cover Book Printing with Dust Jacket

Cloth hardcover books with a dust jacket are a popular choice for high-end publications. The dust jacket is usually printed full-color on one or both sides using premium 157gsm coated paper. The front can be finished with glossy, matte, or soft-touch lamination, enhancing both the look and feel. For added sophistication, special effects such as foil stamping, spot UV, and embossing, can be applied, creating a visually striking and tactilely appealing presentation that elevates the overall book design.

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Fabric Options

At BookPrintingChina, we offer a wide selection of fabric options in diverse colors, textures, and finishes, allowing you to perfectly align your book’s cover with its theme, style, or design vision. From smooth, luxurious cloth to classic linen and durable canvas, etc, each material is carefully chosen for its elegance, strength, and premium feel. Below are some of our most popular fabric choices, perfect for creating distinctive, high-quality cloth cover books.

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Interior Paper Options for Cloth Cover Book Printing

For the interior of cloth cover books, we offer an extensive selection of paper options to suit every project, with coated and uncoated papers being the most commonly used. The choice of interior paper depends on factors such as your book’s genre, size, content type, intended audience, and budget.

For books that are rich in images or illustrations, glossy or matte art paper is an excellent choice. Glossy paper enhances color vibrancy and contrast, making images appear sharper and more striking, while matte art paper reduces glare and adds a sophisticated, elegant finish. Both options ensure a high-quality visual impact that showcases artwork, photos, and detailed graphics beautifully.

For text-heavy books or black-and-white printing, readability, a comfortable writing experience, and a natural, tactile feel are essential. Uncoated paper provides a soft, textured surface that is easy on the eyes, enhances page handling, and delivers a classic, high-end touch suitable for novels, journals, and literary works.

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Glossy Art Paper

Common Weights:
80 gsm (54 lb text)
105 gsm (71 lb text)
128 gsm (86 lb text)
157 gsm (106 lb text)
200 gsm (135 lb text)

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Matte Art Paper

Common Weights:
80 gsm (54 lb text)
105 gsm (71 lb text)
128 gsm (86 lb text)
157 gsm (106 lb text)
200 gsm (135 lb text)

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Uncoated Paper

Common Weights:
80 gsm (54 lb text)
100 gsm (68 lb text)
120 gsm (81 lb text)
140 gsm (95 lb text)
180 gsm (108 lb text)

We also provide specialty paper options to further enhance the book’s aesthetic and tactile appeal, such as:

FSC-certified paper
FSC-certified Paper

We provide FSC-certified paper choices and can print the FSC logo on your product to highlight its eco-friendly quality.

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Colored Paper

Colored paper is frequently used for endpapers, adding visual appeal, contrast, and a polished, decorative touch to the book’s interior.

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Vellum Paper

Translucent, smooth paper that creates layered visual effects, commonly used for inserts, title pages, overlays, or special design accents.

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Bible Paper

Ultra-thin, lightweight yet strong paper, designed to hold high page counts while maintaining flexibility and readability.

Not sure which paper is right for your project? Get in touch with our printing experts for personalized recommendations.

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Cloth Cover Book Binding Options

Sewn hardcover remains the most popular choice for cloth cover books, but spiral and Wire-O hardcover bindings are also widely used. For added flexibility and ease of use, some prefer the modern option of flexibound binding.

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Sewn Hardcover Binding

Sewn hardcover binding delivers a premium appearance and a more satisfying reading experience. Pages are printed, folded, gathered, sewn in sections, then securely attached to a rigid case, making it ideal for high-end or collectible editions.

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Spiral & Wire-o Hardcover Binding

Spiral & Wire hardcover binding uses a 2–3 mm gray board wrapped in cloth, combining hardcover durability with lay-flat reading and full 360-degree page rotation for practical, user-friendly books, ideal for portfolios, photo albums, journals, notebooks.

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Flexibound Binding

Flexibound binding blends the strength of a hardcover with the flexibility of a softcover, featuring sewn pages and a soft, cloth-covered board that offers durability, comfort, and an elegant, modern book feel, ideal for poetries, journals, etc.

If you’re unsure which binding best suits your project or can’t find the option you need, please contact our expert team or visit our “binding” pages for detailed guidance.

Cloth Cover Book Add-on Options

At BookPrintingChina, we provide a variety of premium add-on options to enhance and customize your cloth cover book, giving it a distinctive, refined, and high-end appearance.

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UV or Full Color Printing

UV or Full-color printing on cloth covers produces vibrant, detailed images while preserving the fabric’s natural texture and tactile feel.

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Foil Stamping

Foil stamping applies metallic or pigmented foil onto the surface using heat and pressure, creating eye-catching, luxurious accents.

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Emboss

Embossing creates a raised, three-dimensional design on paper or cardstock, adding texture, depth.

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Deboss

Debossing creates an indented design pressed into paper or cardstock, adding subtle texture and depth.

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Tip-in Image

Tip-in image printing enhances cloth covers by adding premium images to selected areas for visual impact.

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Varnish

Varnish provides a protective coating that enhances durability, reduces smudging, and adds subtle shine.

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Gilded Edges

Gilded edges apply a thin layer of metallic foil—often gold or silver—to the edges of book pages.

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Sprayed Edges

Sprayed edges add bold color or artistic detail, transforming book pages into eye-catching, premium design features.

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Rounded Corner

Rounded corners give books or printed materials smooth, curved edges, enhancing durability, reducing wear and tear.

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Silk Ribbon

Custom silk ribbon bookmarks add elegance, personalization, and enhanced functionality for a premium presentation.

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Dust Jacket

A removable dust jacket protects the cloth hardcover while adding eye-catching artwork, branding, and extra durability to the book.

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Slipcase

Slipcase protects the cloth cover book, enhances presentation, adds durability, and creates a premium, collectible finished look.

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Questions & Answers

Our minimum order quantity for cloth cover book printing usually starts at 100 copies. We offer a big discount for bulk orders, which means the more you print, the cheaper the unit price.

Cloth binding tends to make the most sense when a book is more than just a disposable read — when it’s meant to last, be displayed, or become a keepsake. Good candidates include: photo books, art books, coffee table books, memoirs, yearbooks, portfolios, journals & notebooks, limited editions & collector’s editions, keepsakes, and more.

The best binding option for a cloth-covered book is sewn hardcover binding (also known as case binding).

This method involves sewing the inside pages together in sections before attaching them to a hard cover wrapped in cloth. It offers:

  • Exceptional durability for long-term use

  • Lay-flat opening for easy reading

  • Premium appearance that complements the elegant texture of the cloth material

Yes, we now offer full-color printing directly on cloth materials, allowing intricate illustrations, detailed images, and complex artwork to be printed straight onto the fabric cover. This advanced printing technique delivers sharp colors and fine detail comparable to standard paper printing, while preserving the natural texture and tactile appeal of the cloth. As a result, your book cover achieves a refined balance of visual impact and premium craftsmanship, combining vibrant graphics with the timeless, elegant feel of fabric for a truly distinctive presentation.

Yes! You can order a physical sample before placing an order to check our paper, binding, finish and printing quality.

We recommend high resolution(at least 300ppi) PDF files with embedded fonts and images, including a 3 mm bleed. If your files are created in InDesign or Illustrator, please export them as print-ready PDFs.

For small files, you can upload them directly through our online inquiry form or send them via email to sales@bookprintingchina.com. For large files, please share a download link using platforms such as WeTransfer, Dropbox, or Google Drive.

Yes, our prepress team offers free file checking, including bleed, image resolution, layout, and other technical details to ensure your files are print-ready. We can also provide templates, spine width calculation, and basic layout guidance if needed.

Yes, we offer several proofing options, including PDF proof, physical sample, dummy sample, digital printed sample, and offset printed sample.

After you complete the deposit and before mass production, we usually provide a free digitally printed sample for your confirmation.

The cloth bound book production time usually takes 12-18 days after the final file is approved. The exact timeline depends on the order quantity, binding style, design complexity, and our current production schedule. Shipping time will vary based on your destination and chosen shipping method.

We perform strict quality checks at every production stage—printing, trimming, binding, and packaging—to guarantee color accuracy and durable binding for every order.

We offer air, sea, and express shipping (DHL, FedEx, UPS). Our team will recommend the most cost-effective and reliable method based on your delivery time and budget.

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Cloth Cover Book File Specifications

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Bleed

Bleed is the extra margin trimmed after printing, preventing white edges. A standard bleed size is 0.125 inches (3mm).

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CMYK

CMYK is the correct color mode for printing. RGB files convert automatically and may shift colors. Use 100% black for text.

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Resolutions

Images in prepress files should be at least 300 dpi to ensure sharp details, clear images, and professional print quality.

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File Format

We recommend using high-quality PDF files, as Adobe InDesign exports print-ready PDFs for precise, consistent printing results.

At BookPrintingChina, we offer professional file-checking services and custom templates. If you’re unsure how to layout your artwork, feel free to contact us; we’re happy to provide detailed guidelines and support.

Order Process at BookPrintingChina

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Request a Quote

Submit specs and receive your tailored quote within 1-2 hours.

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Upload Your Design

Send your print-ready PDF via email or shared link easily.

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Review Your File

We check your file for free to ensure perfect print readiness.

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Approve Proof

Pay the deposit, then make a free digital printed proof for approval.

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Production

Upon approval, we begin full production with strict quality control.

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Shipping

After balance payment, we pack securely and ship by air or sea.

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BookPrintingChina Reviews

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

5 star review
Great custom designs!
Ellen at ChinaPrinting4u was responsive and helpful throughout the process of printing my books. The product was excellent, and the books arrived beautifully packed. I give the company high marks for both quality and customer service!

Katherine: 4 days ago

Excellent 4.9
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Why Choose Us For Cloth Cover Book Printing

Save 30-40%

As a direct printing manufacturer with 25+ years of printing and shipping experience, we offer competitive pricing, saving you 30–40% than other printers.

100% Satisifation

We pay close attention to every detail and guarantee 100% high quality; if you’re not completely satisfied, we promise a reprint or a full refund.

Promptly Online Support

One-on-one professional, responsive online assistance from start to finish, covering pre-press artwork, material selection, production, shipping, and more.

Customizable Options

We offer fully customizable options, including trim size, cloth color and texture, paper type, page count, binding style, special finishes, and more.

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We’re Love to Hear From You

We appreciate your interest in BookPrintingChina. Our goal is to deliver a cloth cover book printing experience that is smooth, cost-effective, refined, and efficient from start to finish.

For general questions, simply submit the enquiry form and our sales specialists will respond promptly. To receive a precise project quote, we encourage you to use our online Quote Form, which helps us match the best options to your specific requirements. You may also contact us directly at sales@bookprintingchina.com.

Our team is available seven days a week, with most enquiries answered within 1–2 hours. We look forward to turning your ideas into beautifully printed products with the quality and attention to detail BookPrintingChina is known for.

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