Fur Rugs
Fur rugs are usually made on the cowhide or sheep skin base. Nowadays due to the modern advancements more and more animal skins and hides serve as material for decorative and functional area rugs. The source animals serve the food industry first of all and their skin is byproduct which is used for rugs.
Law to protect animals from exploitation regulates it all. It’s a practical use of skin and hide of animals, which were raised for meat. USA, Canada or Argentina and Brazil are main supplies of hides for fur rugs production. Argentina and Brazil supply softer skins for fur rugs while USA introduces stiff cowhides.
Fur rugs can be also used as covering for furniture. Usually such coverings are made from specially treated calfskin. The prices for this start at 400 dollars. For other fur rugs prices are a bit lower and start at 200 dollars.
Two manufacturing steps can characterize cowhides processing: it may be left in its natural coloring or it may be bleached white.
As cowhide is organic in nature it’s difficult to guarantee absolute coloring and size. You won’t find a variety of colors and hues like in other rugs offers. But they have no limits in application. Fur rugs can be used all around the home. But the best to place it is bedroom or rooms with light traffic.