How we price a hide

Three things set the price: size, colour and country of origin. The widest gap is between Brazilian and European hides. After that it comes down to colour, because some colours are simply rarer than others and demand follows.

One thing worth being clear about: colour has no bearing on quality. A common colour is not a lesser hide, it is a more available one. Buy the colour you actually want.

Are the white hides really white?

Not bright white, no. Our hides are undyed, and true solid white is genuinely rare in nature. What you will find is a range from off-white through cream and ivory to champagne, each slightly deeper than the last.

Our whitest hides are labelled as white and priced a little higher, purely because of how hard they are to source. If you are chasing a specific shade, call us and we will find the closest match we have.

Branded hides and the Natural Collection

Some hides carry a branding mark applied during the animal's life. We group these as our Natural Collection and treat the mark as a piece of provenance rather than a flaw. Branding is always noted in the description and visible in the photos, though it is often subtler than you would expect against the hide's own pattern.

The Natural Collection is our clearance section. It is not a separate collection scattered through the rest of the site, so there is nothing to filter for: if a hide is in clearance it is one of them, and everything else is our regular selection.

Why clearance hides cost less

Clearance hides carry more visible natural character: brand marks, scars, bald patches, irregular outlines. They come from the same tanneries, through the same process, at the same quality as the rest of our Brazilian stock, and those markings do not affect durability or lifespan.

Every clearance cowhide is photographed so you can see exactly what the markings are before you commit. Same hide, more character, better price.

If you would rather have fewer markings

Browse our regular Brazilian and European collections and leave clearance alone. That is where the heavily marked hides are gathered, so stepping around them is a matter of knowing which section they are in.

The character is subtler outside clearance, but it is never absent. Every hide came from an animal that lived a life, and an open cut is closed during tanning by gluing, stitching or patching, so visible stitching means a hide was repaired. Because every cowhide rug with a SKU is individually photographed, you are never guessing: pick the hide whose markings you like from its own photographs.

Where the best value is

Start in clearance and sort by price, low to high.