Cowhide

Cowhide is the natural skin of a cow with hair. Cowhide can be processed into leather, which can be used for shoes, wallets, leather jackets, furniture and car leather and belts. Most of cow leather is without hair, but it can also be processed into leather with fur (Hair-on Leather).

Cowhide with fur - Hair-on Leather

Rawhide comes with hair to tannery.

Swirl in the fur of the living skin. - Swirl in tanned cowhide.

There are many kinds of cattle and therefore common to see fur in many colours. The skin under the hair is however always bright.

Irrespective of the hair colour, the cow skin has no colour when it in the tannery. - The bluish colour is a result of chrome tanning.

No hair-on cowhide is like the other... - Wide variety of choice at www.leder-fiedler.de.

IKEA also offers cow skins with hair.

Cowhide: chair - sofa - bag - shoes - ancient chest (from the Azores).

Cowhide leather shoes.

Beef foot with fur as drinking cup from Brazil. - Bull testicles as a Mate cup from Argentina.

Hair-on cowhide as carpet from Brazil (wernergerling@yahoo.com.br).

Cowhide as carpet. - Design armchair from Italy.

Cowhide design

Hair-on cowhide can be designed in a variety of ways. The fur can be dyed, a pattern can be lasered on it and it can be printed. All methods can also be combined.