Half-linen is a blended fabric in natural colours which is primarily used for binding larger books. Like most bookbinding material, it can be blind tooled, hot-film stamped and screen printed. Gluing work can be done with bone glue or synthetic glue (e.g. PLANATOl).

Half-linen light consists of linen and viscose fibres that are woven together with a composition of 22.0 warp threads (Nm 50)/cm and 11.5 weft threads (Nm15)/cm. The result is a relatively fine, somewhat irregular material that nonetheless has a very harmonious appearance.

For the half-linen dark a mixture of cotton, linen and viscose are woven in the following manner: warp 13.0 threads (Nm 17/cm, weft 11.0 threads (Nm 9.6)/cm.