BRETTUNS VILLAGE LEATHER HIDES AND SIDES This is where we sell
our large cow sides, full hides, and other leathers. We have a separate page
for lightweight leathers (less than 3 oz or under 1/16" or 1.5 mm
thick) We also have a separate
web page for our suede hides. You can get to these using the menu
below. Because we sell excess
leathers from manufacturers of leather goods we never know what to expect
from week to week. Check back often; it
might even be worth book marking this site or going completely overboard
and signing up for our leather crafts newsletter (below). You might also want to
check out our listing of Clearance
Leathers; these are one-of-a-kind hides that we're clearing out of
the barn. If you'd like to be notified
when we add new hides and sides to our leather inventory then just sign
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IN STOCK NOW: Updated January 31, 2012 Heavy Shoulders in Eight Color Options! Just because you don't always
need a hide the size of a Queen Bed comforter, these cowhide shoulders
are just right for many types of projects,
from making quivers to bags
to arm guards to book covers to chair seats to coasters to straps/belts
and on and on until you hit the Canadian border.
Available in the colors
listed in the pull-down menus below. These shoulders run about 9
sq ft on average with a thickness of 5 oz (2mm).
The ones that have 'Moto'
in their name are tumbled leathers, very soft and almost spongy feeling.
Black Naked is more firm and very smooth.
The Dark Brown Pull-Up is
a true pull-up leather - changes color when you wrinkle it; changes back
after a little while. Maple,
Cognac, and Tan are nice
mid-brownish shades that have a certain rustic appeal.
The photo below (Maple)
gives you an idea of the shape of these hides - those lines on the table
are square feet.
Heavy Shoulders are sold
one at a time for $60 flat, or you can get three for $150 flat
and it's OK by us if you
choose three different colors - just include a comment or send us an e-mail.
Both of these prices have
48-state shipping included, so there's nothing else to add.
Individual Heavy Shoulders
$60 each, 48-state shipping included
Color
Sets of Three Heavy Shoulders
$150, 48-state shipping included
Color
Sunrise
Wigwam Rustic Sides (Note: We didn't make
up this name - it came straight from the tannery)
Wouldn't you like to make
a difference in a side leather's life? I think we all know that tough
economic times have hit the cattle pastures pretty hard,
and then things don't improve
a lot at the tannery, and sometimes certain hides get left behind - forgotten
by our hectic pace of life.
It's sad to see them in
the sorting room at the tannery - over there, against the wall, on that
cart that has some broken boards and a bad wheel.
Sure, the employees try
to perk them up, but these sides know what's coming - a sad, lonely life,
never enough to eat (cue
the mournful music in the background right here, Charlie); a life of despair
(crescendo, and hit 'em with the pitch).
For the love of all that's
good and leather-like, please find it in your heart to give this leather
a new, loving home. If you use whatever you make from this leather
for the next 25 years
please keep in mind that
this works out to just one penny per day - wouldn't you give just
a penny a day to put a smile on a hide's face? (note to staff:
Find
whoever wrote this and get
them in my office right NOW!). (Play Grand Finale music and show that photo
of the cowboy with the sad eyes).
Sunrise Wigwam sides are
a reddish brown color and have lead a tough life, so these sides all have
some problems.
Sides run larger than 20
sq ft (avg = 22), HM thickness (4 oz or right about 1/16 of an inch).
Scars, brands, discolorations, bad spots,
messy zones and districts,
horrific maladies of the finish, and all manner of rustication. No
returns on this leather - it is what it is.
Sunrise Wigwam Wicked Bad
Sides $80 each, 48-state USA shipping included.
LARGE BLACK SADDLE DOUBLE
BUTTS Excellent quality chrome
tanned/vegetable re-tanned double butts that are quite large and thick
enough to be made into single layer belts.
Very nice hides are clean,
dyed black (tan in the very center when you cut it), and measure about
6 ft long by 5 ft wide. Surface is printed/embossed with the fine
pig-skin grain pattern that
you see in the 2nd photo. Thickness is 8-9 oz, which is just equal
to or slightly over 1/8 of an inch. This is a very firm leather,
good for armoring up your
chums for next summer's sword whacking events. We'll ship these to
any address in the 48 contiguous United States rolled in a long box
for $180 flat, UPS ground
shipping included.
Recovered from a manufacturing
plant, so they may have some dust and a scratch or two.
Western Embossed Sides/Panels These are sets of nicely
embossed chrome tanned cowhide; all have a western floral/cowboy pattern
on them, in the colors listed in the drop down
menu (if you don't see it
in the list it sold to someone else already). Each color includes
a collection of partial sides and panels, in the square footages shown
here:
Tan
37 sq ft Blue 61
sq ft
White
38 sq ft
Olive
30 sq ft
Priced per color; the prices
you see are all you pay if you're someplace in the 48 contiguous United
States.
Colors
available:
Terra Cotta Calf Sides All the way from Italy Tanned in Italy, these calf
sides were supposed to go into some fancy shoes of some sort. They
really know how to make good leather over there, and
this is good leather.
Or it was, at one time. Apparently they know how to make it, but
they don't know how to store it. These hides
were rolled together and
left on a shelf for way too long - the finish stuck to the the back of
the hide atop it, so the finished side now
looks kind of fuzzy (see
photos), and there are some bad spots here and there that you just flat
out won't be able to use.
Still, each side is about
90% useable. Firm shoe leather, burnishable, and smoother than the
ice in the parking lot this morning
so for the love of Mike
watch your step if you decide to walk across this leather in your stocking
feet or you'll pull a bumpkin-over-teakettle
move that you won't soon
forget.
3.5 oz leather, sides average 13-14 sq ft each.
Terra Cotta Calf Sides of
Questionable Quality
$50 each, 48-state shipping
included
HARVEST GOLD ENGLISH
BRIDLE HIDES Large double butts run about
24 sq ft each and are 9/10 oz in thickness. Vegetable tanned leather
with a nice, pigmented surface finish,
tanned in England, using
the age-old formulas for producing English bridle leather.
These hides are good for
saddle work, quivers, belts, or any other project that requires a high
quality, thick leather.
Firm temper, but still easy
to roll or fold. These are very clean hides, and even though they're
large we'll ship them rolled into a long box, not folded.
Recovered from a manufacturing
plant, so they may have some dust and a scratch or two.
Harvest Golden Tan Double
Butts
160.00 each, and this price
includes shipping by UPS Ground to any address in the 48 contiguous United
States
It's the Return of... PRAIRIE MUD SIDES! One of the most popular
leathers we've ever stocked - it's back! We called this stuff Prairie
Mud because it looked like the mud that got caked on the
wagon wheels somewhere between
St Louis and Californee. This is a nice, thick but soft leather,
good for heavy weight chaps, bags, vests, etc. Red-brown color,
tumbled to soften the leather,
nice grain pattern on the surface. Soft enough for garments, sturdy
enough for straps and seats.
Prairie Mud sides run 5.5
to 6 oz in thickness and average 22 sq ft of surface area per side
$85 each, 48-state shipping
included.
BEIGE BRIDLE
SIDES - SECONDS Cowhide sides that run larger
than 20 square feet, in a thickness that runs right around 7 oz (almost
an eighth of an inch). Regular temper Beige Bridle sides are a very
nice chrome tanned leather,
thick enough for sheaths
and scabbards, flexible enough for making those high-topped pirate boots
you've been thinking about ever since the 16th movie in that Pirates series
came out last year.
So, here's what you get:
A tannery second quality large cowhide side (half of an entire cow) in
a thickness that's just under 1/8 of an inch, in a nice beige-tan color
that looks about like pine boards if you ask Charlie, who
spent last week nailing
tongue and groove pine boards to the inside of his camp. Bottom line
is that this is beautiful leather with some defects here and there, priced
at $85 per side, 48-state USA shipping included.
This leather tool pretty
well according to our customers. It's not a veg tan tooling leather,
but the tannery did a good job of producing a nice chrome tanned tooling
leather right here.
As always, ever since 1995,
the price includes shipping to any address within the 48 contiguous United
States.
Thick (But Soft) Black
Double Bends, 8 oz These double bends (aka
double butts) are struck through (dye penetrates all the way through the
leather) and are a full 1/8" thick (8 oz leather, or 3.2mm).
Softened a bit; this is
not a firm leather and would be comfortable to wear, although heavy.
Hides run about 22 sq ft of surface area on average, roughly four and a
little by 5 feet.
We have some, like the one
shown bottom right, that had test rectangles cut from them - selling these
lab test hides at a lower price. $100 flat for the good ones,
$90 for the test hides.
Both prices, of course, include shipping to any address in the 48 contiguous
United States.
:
Vegetable Tanned Tooling
Bellies - Filson Brown Cowhide bellies are vegetable
tanned, dyed dark, dark brown, about 6 to 8 oz in thickness, and typically
firm like most tooling leathers.
They run about 6 feet long,
and from 4 to 15 inches wide; 4 to 6 square feet of surface area per belly.
The shape of each belly
is highly variable, as you can see in the photo.
Great for making smaller
items and you can get a belt or two out of each.
Or, if you're so inclined,
have a belt or two while you're working with this leather.
Please tool responsibly.
Tooling Bellies $30
each, USA shipping included (yes, AK and HI included),
or get 3 bellies for $60,
with shipping to the 48 contiguous United States included in this price.
Select
THICK BLACK
KNOBBY SHOULDERS Soft and Thick - Tannery
Seconds - $75 per pair These are chromium tanned
cowhide double shoulders - basically the front half of the cow - that have
been drum dyed black (struck through).
The surface is very heavily
textured - we're calling it knobby, just like those bicycle tires we used
to need so very desparately that we'd mow lawns, shovel snow,
deliver newspapers, sell
Christmas cards - whatever it took to raise the $4.75 that was required
to purchase a knobby bike tire. Our thinking was that once we had
that
kind of tread on the bike
we'd somehow be faster and able to haul flaming bales of rear-end across
any terrain at speeds typically reserved for jet cars at Bonneville.
Naturally, once we got the
tires on the bike we'd be disappointed, just like you're going to be if
you expect these double shoulders to be perfect quality. They ain't.
These double shoulders run
6 to 7 oz in thickness (a little less than 1/8") and about 10-11 sq ft
of surface area. Roughly 2.5 feet wide by 4 to 5 feet long.
Softer than most leathers in this thickness - mellow temper.
These are tannery culls,
so expect some marks, scratches, a hole or two, scuffs, etc. Still,
this is a very rustic leather that might look pretty good as part of your
next git up.
Black Knobby Shoulders,
$75 for a pair of hides, USA shipping included.
THICK SMOOTH BLACK DOUBLE
BUTTS Cowhide double butts run
about 17-18 square feet on average, in a thickness that runs right around
8 oz (an eighth of an inch). Firm leather, veg tan, chrome re-tanned,
and
finished with a very smooth
surface. Good for belts, straps, and other projects that require
a good, thick leather.
Smooth Black Double Butts,
$125 each, 48-state shipping included
THICK MAHOGANY SIDES Cowhide sides that run about
17-18 square feet on average, in a thickness that runs right around 7 oz
(almost an eighth of an inch). Firm leather, veg tan, chrome re-tanned,
and
finished with a mottled
mahogany reddish-purplish-brown color that'll look right at home on your
3rd floor library at your weekend home. Very fine haircell texture
on the surface;
this would be nice leather
for a desk top, or use it to make arm bracers for your next sword flinging
event.
Mahogany sides, $75 each,
48-state shipping included
3 Oz Veg Tan Tooling
Sides These are cowhide sides,
tanned in bark/vegetable extracts, specifically made for tooling, stamping,
burning (like with a wood burner), and wet-forming.
Sides are all larger than
20 square feet each and are just under 1/16" thick (3 oz leather, which
is 3/64 of an inch or 1.2mm).
These are A- Grade sides
so expect some scratches or holes as shown in the photos - nothing major.
Very smooth, buttery surface
just screams to be made into book covers, wallets, notepads, etc.
Priced per side -
with free shipping to any location in the 48 contiguous United States.
3 oz Veg Tan Sides - $95
each
48-State USA Shipping included!
Fred (of Mountain
Man Leather) likes the way this stuff tools:
HEAVY VEGETABLE TANNED
TOOLING SHOULDERS These rather large double
shoulders are basically the front end of the cow, vegetable tanned in full
thickness (10 to 12 oz) and
run about 12-14 sq ft of
surface area per hide. This is a very firm, veg-tan leather that
can be carved, tooled, wet-formed, or used as is.
Recovered from a manufacturing
plant, so they may have some dust and a scratch or two.
Veg Tan Double Shoulders
$95 each, UPS Ground shipping included for any address in the 48 contiguous
United States.
VEGETABLE TANNED TOOLING
FULL CALF HIDES These are full calf hides
that run about 10 to 12 sq ft of surface area each, in a thickness that
varies from 4 to 6 oz across each hide.
Good tooling, stamping,
carving, or wet forming. The hide you receive will almost certainly
contain a hole in one part of the hide or another -
that's the way they are.
Most of these hides were folded in half and stored on a shelf - so there's
a fold line right up the backbone.
We're storing them flat
and will roll them for shipping, which should help some, but you may want
to use some water to get the crease ironed out, literally.
Veg Tan Tooling Calf Hides,
$75 each, 48-state shipping included
Genuine American Bison
Full Hides USA Bison, Tanned Right
Here in the USA Too! Our
current batch of Chocolate Bison looks like this: A very nice, thick (5 oz,
which is the same as about 2.0mm), soft leather that'll work fine for making
garments, bags, totes, etc. These are full hides from USA bison,
chrome tanned,
mill tumbled for a long,
long time to soften the leather. These are struck through (dye penetrates
all the way through the leather), available in the colors listed in the
pull-down menu below
(we've got a lot of this
stuff coming in these days, so if you don't see the color you want please
check back soon), natural grain pattern on the surface,
with the odd scratch or
scuff that you might expect to see on a bison, and some hides also have
a hole or two. Beautiful leather - not all that easy to find.
We're selling a full hide
of this bison leather (about 40-44 sq ft total surface area per hide for
$150.00 flat; 50-state USA shipping included, along with the Territories,
thanks to those flat rate boxes we hear so much about on the TV.
Currently available colors
are listed in the pull-down menu, below.
Note:
Bison hides are from wild animals and will have flaws, so we've priced
these
Second Quality hides at
$150 each (first quality hides, when in stock, are $175 each - see the
pull-down menu for availability).
Color
Pigskin Suede These pig hides are chromium
tanned and are quite thick - this isn't what you'd normally want to use
for garments. It's more like the suede
you'd put on the elbows
of one of those Harris Tweed blazers so you'd have the right look when
you were smoking your pipe while leaning against the fireplace mantle
underneath the moose head
from your legendary hunt up to Second Musquacook. Our pig suede hides
have a very low nap, just barely a suede, and the skins run about 6 sq
ft of
surface area, on average.
3.5 to 4 oz, or 1/16 of an inch, or 1.4 - 1.6 mm in thickness. Available
colors are listed in the pull-down menu below.
These pigskins are sold
one at a time for $30 each or in groups of 6 for $100 (any color combination
you'd like subject to availability - just e-mail
us or include a note in the comment box at check-out)
Color
BOURBON SHOULDERS Recent attempts at intense
research here at BV have brought about some interesting results.
We've found that as we get older
our tastebuds gradually
decrease in accuracy. It gets to the point where just about all sandwiches
taste the same, now that certain
Board of Director members
are in their mid-50s. Some of us can't taste much of anything, but
the one exception is, well, anyway, I was trying to meander my way into
explaining
how we came up with the
name for this leather but just flat forget it. It looks like bourbon.
There.
These are veg/retanned shoulders
that run about 10-12 sq ft each, and are rather firm. Waxed and waterproof,
heavy texture on the surface,
4.5 oz in thickness (about 1/16 of an inch), reddish brown color.
Burp.
Bourbon Shoulders, $50 each,
48-state shipping included.
PUTTY SOLE BENDS Sole bends measure about
2.5 ft by 4.5 ft and are great for making, well, soles. Now you know.
These are straight vegetable tanned sole bends that are firm
(but not as firm as the
bends that were tanned to be used as floor tiles, sold elsewhere on this
page), and are finished with a putty color on the surface that will match
your
new filing cabinet that
the company finally bought for you after 14 years of you piling your files
on the floor.. These bends average about 10 sq ft of surface area
each and are
very firm. $65 each
will do it, and this price, like always, includes UPS shipping to any address
in the lower 48.
Recovered from a manufacturing
plant, so they may have some dust and a scratch or two.
OFF-WHITE SOLE BENDS These off-white sole bends
about 2.5 ft wide by 4.5 ft long and have a thickness of 10 oz/sq ft (4mm).
These bends are off-white in color and have a rough, almost nubuck texture,
so they'll soak up dye like there's no tomorrow.
This means you can make
them any color you want, and you can choose dyes, paints, or even magic
markers to go right to town on them. Bends average about 10 sq ft
of surface area each and
have a firm temper.
$65 each will do it, and this price, like always, includes UPS shipping
to any address in the lower 48.
Recovered from a manufacturing
plant, so they may have some dust and a scratch or two.
Full Cowhide Sides of
Brown Suede These are full cowhide sides
of chromium tanned suede split leather - suede on both sides. Available
in Dark Brown or Cinnamon (the lighter shade).
Thickness is 4 to 4.5 oz
(1/16"). Very soft leather; mellow temper. Good for garments.
Sides average about 18 square
feet of surface area and are priced at $65 each, USA shipping included.
Color
We've
got lots of other suede leathers posted on our Suede
Leathers page!
LARGE
Cowhide Side of Cognac Basket Weave Embossed Veg Tan Leather Very nice looking cowhide
sides are huge! Sides run about 25-27 sq ft on average, and are 3.5
oz in thickness (1.5mm or just under 1/16").
Vegetable tanned and then
embossed with a very convincing basket weave pattern. Cognac golden
red-brown
color. This is a regular temper
leather - not soft enough
to make a t-shirt, not firm enough to make a quiver - these are somewhere
in the middle. $80 each will do it, 48-state shipping included.
VEGETABLE
TANNED FULL CALF HIDES Cammello
Corda
Full calf hides were vegetable
tanned in Italy and were intended to be used in the production of garments
or furniture.
Hides average 20-22 sq ft
of surface area, 3.5 oz in thickness (just under 1/16"). These are
tannery culls - betrter known as factory seconds,
so you can expect to see
some bug bites or scratches or holes in the hide you receive.
These are considered 'naked'
hides, meaning they've not been grain corrected or treated on the surface
in any way that would smooth out wrinkles, bug bites, etc.
Very natural looking hides,
with that excellent creaky sound that good veg tan leather makes when you
move it around.
Sold per hide, and each
hide will be nice and natural looking - this means you will see holes,
scratches, bug bites,
but nothing too major and
we do our best to make sure 90% of each hide is clean as the new pup after
she swims in Brettuns Pond.
The rougher ones are sold
at a lower price over on the Clearance page.
Veg Tan Full Calf Hides
$130 each, 48-state shipping included.
We can also ship these to
other USA addresses (AK, HI, GU, PR) if you don't mind us folding the leather
to fit in a flat rate box.
Available colors are shown
in the pull-down menu (sold out of dark brown - sorry)
Color
Why aintcha got black? GENUINE VEGETABLE TANNED
HORSE LEATHER STRIPS North of Cordovan! Taken from just north of
the butt cheeks (which is where true shell cordovan comes from), these
strips of horse hide are 6 to 8 oz in thickness, and each piece measures
about 4 to 5 square feet of total surface area.
Roughly 4 feet long and
about a foot wide. Vegetable Tanned and medium rolled (compressed
just a bit) to yield an excellent strop leather.
Tan color, and you can dye
them if you feel like it. Also, this is a good leather for painting
- the surface is not treated with any oils or anything else.
Since these come from just
above the butt cheeks (cordovan), we call this North of Cordovan.
Great for making belts,
straps, knife sheaths or tool holders. None of these are perfect
-
each will have a discoloration or blemish or hole on it.
North of Cordovan strips,
$35 each, or 3 for $65, or 10 for $200, 48-state USA shipping included
These all have some problems,
but 80-90 percent of each strip is still OK for use.
OK, stop right here - this
is important - these are not perfect!
No Returns! Sold As-Is!
Shipping is included in
our prices for all of our customers
in the 48 contiguous
Qty
Black or Dark Brown Smaller
Horse Hip Strips, 7 to 8 oz Dark brown horse leather
hip strips are about 4 ft long and 5 to 6 " wide. Leather is soft
rolled.
Great for sheaths or scabbards,
or use it to make handles as it doesn't stretch very much.
Thickness is 7 to 8 oz across
each strip.
Choose Black or Dark Brown
Horse Strips: $20 each, or 5 strips for $75, USA shipping included
(includes PR and GU)
Please
select:
CARBON!! Full Cowhides, Upholstery
or Garment Leather from Royal Hide Carbon full cowhides are
from Royal Hide and are very nice upholstery or garment grade hides.
Carbon is a dark gray color,
hides are very soft and
average over 50 sq ft per hide. Thickness is 3/5 oz, or just under
one sixteenth of an inch, which
means that most home sewing
machines can go through this stuff like green corn through the new school
teacher.
Carbon full cowhides, $155.00
each, 50-state shipping included (hides shipped to AK and HI will be folded
into flat rate USPS boxes).
If you don't need a full
hide you can purchase a half hide for $85 or a quarter of a hide for $50,
and these prices also include USA shipping.
We'll include Puerto Rico
in this deal too.
Sizes
Cailtin Alexander made a
gorgeous jacket out of Carbon:
Yes, it's that dark!
Floor Tile Sole Bends If you need some leather
that's so stiff you almost can't bend it at all then this is exactly the
stuff you need.
Perfect for making a corset
that will force you to scream in nine languages plus shorthand, these sole
bends were tanned
specifically for use as
floor tiles. Yep, that's right. They were being cut into squares
and used as floor tiles in
high-end homes (like along
the Maine coast - not inland). Very tough for us to roll it up to
get it into a shipping box,
and when you take it out
of the box make sure you're in an open area with no small children, pets,
crystal vases, collectible Jim Beam decanters, etc
anywhere close by.
Thickness is about 9 oz, or just over 1/8 of an inch. Color is called
'Antiqued Natural' - a nice, rustic tone.
Bends (the term 'bend' refers
to a specific area of a cowhide, from the back half of the cow, you get
one bend on either side of the backbone)
average about 2 feet wide
and 4.5 feet long, roughly 10 sq ft per bend.
Please note:
These are sorting rejects - the leather is fine but the finish may have
a scratch or scuff on it somewhere.
Antique Natural Floor Tile
Bends $65 each, 48-state shipping included.
Genuine Patent Leather
Cowhide Sides, Dark Green With a surface that's slicker
than most playground slides, these patent leather cowhide sides are smooth,
sleek, shiny, glossy, reflective, and plastic looking.
Just right for making some
dress shoes that you can wear uptown, downtown, midtown, or in the slammer.
Sides average about 19 square feet of surface area,
and are 3.5 oz in thickness
(just a hair under 1/16"). Good leather for handbags, shoes, and
accessories. Very dark green color.
Sides average about 20 sq
ft each and are priced at $65 each, 48-state USA shipping included.
(We can offer the same price
to our customers in AK, HI, and PR but your leather will be FOLDED to fit
in those USPS boxes.)
Genuine USA Elk Hides
- Now Four Colors Available! Smoke Tan, Tobacco Brown,
Off-White, or Black Off-white
These hides are from USA
elk and each hide was tanned right here in the USA by either Cory Tanning
or Fax Valley - these were done right.
Buckskin tan color (the
light tan) is great for all types of Mountain Man or Native American crafts;
Tobacco Brown (darker) is a rich color that
will look great even if
you just toss it over an end table up at hunting camp. The black
is, well, it's black. Very, very soft hides have a thickness that's
just the way it came off the animal -
(roughly 3/32 of an inch).
These hides came from wild elk - they'll have bullet holes, scatches, drag
marks, scuffs, or other blemishes -please don't expect perfect hides.
Hides average 20 to 23 sq
ft each and are priced at $125 each, with USA shipping included (even for
AK and HI)
Elk Hides, $125 each, Free
50-state shipping
Color
PS: If you don't mind
buying an elk hide that has a lot of holes or scratches or tire marks on
it then you can save a little dough by
buying second quality elk
hides listed for $90 each in our Deal of the Week. Click
here, please.
Dragon Green (dyed) caiman
skin, non-glossy
Caiman 8: $90
Price includes shipping
to any USA address
Will not ship outside of
the USA
Looking for More
Caiman/Gator, Lizard, or Snake Skins? Check
out our new
Exotic
Leathers page!
Book
Binder's Leather Firm,
veg tan pigskin leather, very stiff This is a firm bodied leather,
vegetable tanned pig leather, compressed at the tannery between pinch rollers
to make it a more hard, durable leather, specifically tanned
for use as book binding
leather. Cover your notebooks, your text books, and your old Model
Car magazines with it. Available in the colors listed in the pull-down
menu.
Hides run about 3.5 to 4
feet long and 2.5 feet wide, or about 10 sq ft of surface area, with a
thickness that runs 2.5 oz across the hide. Haircell texture on the
surface.
These are older hides that
sat in a warehouse for a long time, but they seem to have been stored properly,
don't stink to High Heaven, and are still in very good condition.
Book Binding Bends
$35 each or get 6 for $150,
and it's OK to ask us to pick out a mixture of colors for you, as you see
fit.
Your
choice:
This leather can be soaked
in warm water and then formed to a shape. It stays in that shape
after it dries out.
Confirmed by lab test (rimshot).
Full
Cowhides, Beautiful Upholstery Leather Several Colors Available Here's a great addition
to the barn here at Brettuns Village Leather - more than one thousand full
cowhides of beautiful upholstery leather.
Full hides average about
50 square feet of surface area, roughly 7 feet by 7.5 feet and are very
soft. Thickness is about 3 oz (under 1/16 of an inch)
so these can be sewn on
most sewing machines. Great for covering chairs or couches or pick
up trucks or 32 foot sport fishing boats or the barbecue grill or a leaky
section of your roof or
your bed (these make great
bedspreads just the way they are) or the parrot's cage or just about anything
else. These are full finish hides, meaning a lot of the color is
on the surface,
although each hide is dyed
all the way through. The tannery added more finish on the surface
to get the final colors right, as these were being used to make expensive
furniture,
aircraft interiors, and
automobile interiors. This lot of hides has been consigned to us
under our corporate
consignment program.
Hides are from well-known
high-end tanneries, such as Spinneybeck and some fine Italian tanners.
We've got 30 gaylord containers
to sift through, so we add more colors to this page as we find them.
These hides are soft enough
to be used to make garments, chaps, or any other soft leather goods.
Pricies are all-inclusive
- no shipping charge added for our customers in the 48 contiguous United
States.
Most of our full hides are
priced at $155 each, 48-state shipping included.
Forest (Forest hides are
calf hides averaging 30 sq ft each, soft nappa cowhide, $125 each)
3 Shades of Gray - full
hides average 52 sq ft each
Thundercloud (medium gray
with a hint of green added)
Color
WICHITA FALLS COWHIDE
SIDES HEAVY WEIGHT SIDES, BEAUTIFUL LEATHER This is a new leather for
us here at Brettuns Village, and we're pretty worked up about it.
Tanned to our specifications, this medium brown, 6-7 oz cowhide side leather
is useable for
many types of projects.
Our goal was to produce a leather that would appeal to the broadest range
of our customers - from historic and period re-enactors to outdoorspeople,
from furniture craftsmen to
interior decorators. US
cowhide sides are tanned using a heavy steer hide, and the thickness is
kept heaavy on purpose. Color is a medium brown that's exactly the
same color as the mud that
some of us around here used
to track into the house on our little cowboy boots when we were growing
up in Wichita Falls (it's in Texas, Carmen Sandiego). Regular temper
leather has not received any oil
treatments or other goops
or putties, so the natural cowhide shows and we like it that way.
Dampen the surface and you can tool this leather - just look at the ornate
and elaborate tooling job that Charlie
spent his lunch hour on
today (lower right photo). Nice work, Chaz, and definitely up to
your usual standards.
These sides average 19 sq
ft
Medium Brown Wichita Falls
Sides, $100 each, 48-state USA shipping included
Click
here for information on our
WHOLESALE
PROGRAM for
large volume purchasers
Woven Calf Leather Panels Very fine calf leather,
chromium tanned, that was cut into strips 5mm wide and woven into 'vamps'
which end up being fancy dress shoes.
Available in the colors
shown, each vamp measures about 7.5" wide bt 12" long.
Please note that most of
these have a slit down the middle where your foot would have slid into
the shoe
(if you look at the top
photo on the left you can see the interruption of the weave pattern on
the tan panel pretty well).
Great for wrapping around
handles, making inlays on book covers, wallets, shoe plugs, etc.
We sell these in groups
of 3 for $12 per group, USA shipping included.
Choose the color you'd like
from the pull-down menu, or choose the combo pack (1 of each color).
Choose
Please note - For
Hides/Sides Under 3 oz in thickness please visit our Thin
Leathers Page
All prices include shipping
in the contiguous 48 United States Click
here to see our Shipping Information page Leather weights are given in ounces
per square foot As a general rule of thumb,
each ounce is = to about 1/64", so 4 oz is 4/64 or 1/16" For
more information about leather thickness
click
here CLICK
HERE
if you only need one piece of leather; our form makes it easy
to buy just what you need! Note: OK, nothing
is really easy around here, but this form is a little easier than pushing
a cat into a bucket which we would only do to save the cat's life in the
event of a barn fire or meteor strike
If you'd like to study some
common leather terms or are having trouble falling asleep click
here.
You can sound like an expert
once you learn to sling the lingo.
If learning about leather
thickness gets your heart pumping then click
here.
Light Weight or Thin
Hides Cowhide, Sheep, Deer, Horse,
Goat, Calf Leathers
See them on
the Lightweight
Leathers Page!
Leather weights are given
in ounces per square foot As a general rule of thumb,
each ounce is = to about 1/64", so 4 oz is 4/64 or 1/16"
For more information about
leather thickness click
here Not
finding the leather you want on this page? Try our Clearance
page. OR Are you looking
for some other type of leather, like suede, sheep hides, thin goat skins,
scrap pieces, furs, or something else? You should take
a gander at our Site
Map - it's the menu of all of our choices All
Prices Include USA Shipping for the lower 48! AK
and HI are just a little more - send an
e-mail
to inquire. Or
click
here for more shipping information - APOs, International Shipping,
Express, Overnight, etc. Please
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Mail, Fax, or Online Shopping Cart
The easiest and fastest method
is to use our online shopping cart system. Just click the buttons
next to each item, and it'll walk you right through the process.
You can pay with your credit
card, or, if you'd prefer, you can use your PayPal account.
We've tried to make this
as easy as possible. Print out this order
form and mail or fax it up with a check or with your credit card info
(number, expiration date, and CVV code).
Can't print the form?
No problem, just write your order down on a piece of paper and mail or
fax. You can order leather pieces, laces, buckles, etc all on one
form or piece of paper, just add it all up.
Don't forget your shipping
address. We'll get your order out as soon as possible. All
prices on our site include shipping charges for
locations within the 48
states, and, at Brettuns Village, we do not charge for handling your order.
Just doesn't seem fair!
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Brettuns Village Leather
PO Box 772
Auburn, ME 04212
Fax: (207)782-7448 FAX!
Questions about shipping?
APO, International, Alaska or Hawaii, overnight or express shipping?
Click
here to visit our Shipping Information page
E-Mail
Us! leather@brettunsvillage.com Copyright 1994 Brettuns Village All rights reserved Like there's anything here
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