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Cowhides-Animal Prints
All of our "stenciled" animal print cowhides come from Brazil, the country that unquestionably produces some of the finest quality cowhides in the world. Each of the designs are "stenciled" onto a natually colored cowhide. The vast majority of them are medium sized or about 5x7 ft. Very rarely do we receive large hides which will measure at least 6x7 ft. Because of their limited availablity one should not expect to have these readily available for purchase.
The leather of each one of our cowhides is very supple and soft, unlike so many other cowhides on the market today that can actually be quite stiff. In addition, our manufacturers do not use any of the tanning solutions that can produce the unpleasant smell that many other cowhide products commonly have.
Almost all of the hides used in South America for animal prints, whether they are white for zebras or brown for the other styles, will have the normal amount of shading, speckling and patching that 97% of all cowhides have. In other words cowhides will have the same type of natural markings and imperfections that all animal skins have. Only about 3% of hides are what we call "pure in color" meaning that they do not have nearly as much of this normal shading, speckling or patching. Rarely will you see these "pure in color" hides, even when you are spending $600 and up for a hide at an exclusive furniture store. They simply are too rare.
Zebras are by far the most popular print. We have a number of choices available, each one being priced according to availability and how rare they are. All of our "standard" prints, whatever the style, will have the normal amount of shading, speckling and markings whereas our "show" quality hides will have less of the natural markings.
(For more infomation, please go to the "Unmatched Quality" link here.)
Rest assured that every cowhide rug we sell is of the highest quality. Nicer
cowhide rugs simply do not exist. Most of our cow hide products come from either Argentina or Brazil, the two countries that unquestionably produce the finest quality
cow hides in the world. The more supple Brazilian cowhides are best for natural cow hide rugs while stiffer Argentine cowhide is best for a designer patchwork
cow hide rug. Our designer cowhide pillows also come from Brazilian cow hides. In short, the quality of our cow hide area rugs, our cow hide pillows and our designer cow hide rugs is unsurpassed.
