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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COWBOY TAN COWHIDE SIDES 5/5.5 oz cowhide Sitting out there on old
Glue Gun all day in that burning Texas sun, lollygagging along, fixing
the fence here, putting a sign up there. Man, it's hot.
That calf ran straight into
the fence right about here last May, and when you were out here fixing
that mess you remember how the prairie dogs all laughed at you when you
got hot and took off
your shirt. They roared.
"You look just like a trout belly," you remember them saying. So
today, you're somewhat surprised to see that when you take off that shirt
you've got tan lines, cowboy.
Pasty white here, a nice,
golden brown tan over there. Looks just like that leather that hit
the Brettuns Village loading dock yesterday. Cowboy Tan, and no tanning
booth involved.
That's living.
Cowhide sides in our Cowboy
Tan color run 22 sq ft on average and are 6 to 7 oz in thickness.
Mellow temper - softer than you might expect for a leather this thick.
Make yourself some serious
chaps that won't wear out, or a knapsack to hand down to your grandkids,
or just cover your arms with it, prance around, and holler,
"I'm a cowboy, look at my
tan!" You're losing it , Pardner.
Cowboy Tan sides $75
each, 48-state shipping included.
CHILI COWHIDE SIDES 6 oz cowhide sides This is a p[retty nice and
durable leather if you want to make a quiver or something that needs to
hold shape. Firm body, 6 oz thickness, veg tan, chrome re-tanned,
surface dyed, and
finished with a texture
that looks like natural wrinkles. The color, when you stare down
into it, looks just like a big bowl of chili - the kind that tastes so
good up there at Sugarloaf when you head up there skiing.
Cowhide sides in our Chili
(reddish brown) color run 22 sq ft on average and are 6 oz in thickness.
Chili sides $75 each,
48-state shipping included.
BLACK OIL
SHALE COW SIDES 5/5.5 oz, oiled cowhide Our Black Oil Shale sides
are from a tannery in Argentina. Chromium tanned, oiled to be water
resistant, regular temper, 5 to 5.5 oz in thickness.
Surface feels a bit oily,
so this is great leather for outdoor uses, like sewing a bunch of them
together to cover your hunting buggy
so it's ready to roll when
you finally decide to go over to Fish Eating Creek and look for some of
those wild hogs that hang out over there.
Medium temper leather was
tanned specifically to be made into boots for the wind-in-what's-left-of-your-hair
crowd (Harley Davidson boots).
Large sides run 21 square
feet or larger in total surface area. May have brands or scratches
- this leather was tanned to allow
the natural character of
the leather to be visible - no grain correcting, no putties or goops to
fill in defects - it's natural looking.
Good for boots, straps,
bags that need to hold shape, etc. This is nice leather.
These hides are priced at
$75 each, and this, for our 15th year in a row, includes shipping to any
location in the 48 contiguous United States. Even Fish Eating Creek.
If you need more, we're
selling ten sides for $700, 48-state shipping included.
Qty:
Genuine
USA Elk Hides - Three Colors Available! Smoke Tan, Tobacco Brown,
or Black 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 an 3/32 of an inch).
These hides came from wild elk - they'll have bullet holes, scatches, drag
marks, scuffs, or other blemishes, but over 80% of each hide is useable.
Hides average 20 to 23 sq
ft each and are priced at $110 each, with USA shipping included (even for
AK and HI)
Elk Hides, $110 each, Free
50-state shipping
Color
Black Haircell Print Sheep Hides Chrome tanned full sheep
hides average about 6-7 sq ft of surface area and are struck through (dye
penetrates all the way through the leather).
Thickness is 2.5 oz, which
is thin enough to run through most home sewing machines without causing
parts to fly off the machine and embed
themselves in your walls,
furniture, inlaws, or small pets. You'll have to find some other
way of causing such mayhem, because these nice hides
are easy to work with.
Surface has what's called a 'haircell print' which is just a very slight
amount of texture. Soft hides, good for garments
or linings. One black
haircell sheep will set you back $25, or get 3 for $50. These prices,
like always on this website, include shipping
within the 48 contiguous
United States.
Your choice
Tan Glove Leather Sheep Hides Chrome tanned full sheep
hides average about 6-7 sq ft of surface area and are struck through (dye
penetrates
all the way through the leather).
These were tanned specifically
for making gloves, but are thin and soft enough for many different uses.
Thickness is 2.5 oz.
Surface has been imprinted with the geometric pattern you see in the photos
- apparently to give you some
grip when you try to pick
up a dime while washing dishes (if you're not at least 50 years old you
won't know what we're talking about here - tough luck)
One tan glove leather
sheep will set you back $25, or get 3 for $50. These prices, like
always on this website, include shipping
within the 48 contiguous
United States.
Your choice
Black (dyed) caiman skin,
non-glossy
Caiman 10: $125
Price includes shipping
to any USA address
Will not ship outside of
the USA
See
more Exotic Hides (Snake, Lizard, Caiman) here Looking for Caiman/Gator,
Lizard, or Snake Skins? Check out our new
Exotic
Leathers page!
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.
Cat's Eye (light green),
Red, Forest (Forest hides are calf hides averaging 30 sq ft each, soft
nappa cowhide, $125 each)
Blue and 3 Shades of Gray
Dark Taupe Full Hides (dark
gray with a hint of brown)
Birchwood (Tan) and Thundercloud
(medium gray with a hint of green added)
Color
Four more colors, $155 per
full hide, 48-state shipping included
Color
Need some other color?
We've also listed some one-of-a-color
and partial hides of this leather over on the Clearance
page,
and as we dig through these
hides we'll probably find more to list over there.
Cowhide Nubuck Sides,
Two Earth Tone Colors These cowhide sides have
been softened by the tannery for use in garments and other items that require
a soft handed leather.
Our nubucks are from USA
cowhides, tanned and finished right here in the USA.
Do you know what suede is?
It's rough or nappy leather, right?
Do you know what smooth
leather is? It's smooth. That's right, we work for NASA.
Do you know what nubuck
is? It's in the middle - not smoothed out, not roughed up like suede.
Nubuck has a nice texture,
not glossy at all, and, again, these are very soft.
We have these in one color
only: Bone (sold out of Tan). In the photos above Bone is on
the left, Tan on the right.
Bone Nubuck Sides run about
20 sq ft on average, 3.5 oz in thickness, and we have them priced at $70
each, USA shipping included.
All of our hides are inspected
by That Dog prior to shipping. May contain dog hair.
BLACK SNAKE EMBOSSED
COWHIDE SIDES Black cowhide sides are
chrome tanned and dyed all the way through; 4 oz in thickness (1/16 of
an inch thick). Mellow temper (flexible).
These are SECONDS.
Almost all of these have a hole or two somewhere on the hide. We've
priced them accordingly.
Surface is glossy with a
very nice snake skin embossing. The embossing is very well done -
it's so convincing
you can almost see that
little forked tongue sticking out, and sometimes when the traffic outside
is quiet
(don't laugh - one day last
week almost ten cars, well, nine, drove right by corporate headquarters
which may mean it's time to move further upcountry)
you can almost hear this
leather hiss. Available in three sizes, so you can pick just how
much slither you want. Skin crawling yet?
Just wait til you make this
season's long underwear out of this leather, Chester.
Black Snake Sides are priced
per side based on surface area, 48 state shipping included:
Large (over 15 sq ft)
$60
Medium (10-15 sq ft)
$50
Small (8-10 sq ft)
$40
Size
Very Niccssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssse
Except that almost all of
these will have a small hole here or there.
NATURAL IVORY SOLE BENDS
Tanned for Making Leather Floor Tiles! IVORY ONLY (sold
out of tan) If you're a leather crafter,
when you see cows standing in a field you don't just see gentle animals
contemplating their place in the scheme of things; you see future craft
projects,
and as you size up their
skins, you should know that the 'bend' is a portion of the hide that runs
on either side of the backbone, a little aft of amidships.
Bends are comprised of leather
fibers that are able to be densely packed when subjected to pressure. Look
at your fancy loafers, the ones you bought on sale but they have that
expensive name brand on
them so you're constantly crossing your legs in public places so that the
folks nearby might get a glance at the label on the bottom of those leather
soles -
you know what I mean.
Those leather soles are made from the bend. What we've got right
here are bends that have been compressed to make them incredibly hard -
they were meant to be cut
into floor tiles, believe it or not, but work well for any purpose
that requires a very firm leather. How firm? About like a sheet
of quarter inch plywood.
Desk tops/writing surfaces,
shoe soles, etc. Available in Ivory (off-white) only, about 8/9 oz
in thickness (about 1/8"), and averaging about 9 square feet of surface
area
(roughly 2 feet and a couple
of inches wide by 4 feet plus a few inches long). This is expensive
stuff, but we have it priced to move.
The price shown includes
shipping to any location in the 48 contiguous United States, with no extra
charge for the work we put into trying to roll one of these things and
fit it into a 12" square long box.
Sometimes the bends win,
sometimes we win. Jenny keeps score.
Ivory Sole Bends $65
each
Shipping included for any
location in the 48 contiguous United States
3.5 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 larger than
20 square feet each and are just under 1/16" thick (3-3.5 oz leather).
These are B Grade sides
so expect some scratches or holes as shown in the photos.
Priced per side -
with free shipping to any location in the 48 contiguous United States.
Large 3.5 oz Veg Tan Sides
- 20 square feet or larger - $75 each
48-State USA Shipping included!
Fred (of Mountain
Man Leather) likes the way this stuff tools:
GOLD METALLIC FINISH
COWHIDE SIDES Large cowhide sides are
very soft, and were vat dyed nice and black.
After that, old Mr. Tannery
Guy stood back, took a long look, and then he heaved a bucket of gold finish
on them.
'There.' he said.
"Now they'll sell.' Eureka.
These are nice - suitable
for garments or upholstery - would make a heck of a nice space age recliner
for Dad.
These Gold Metallic Sides
are called Midas and run about 19 sq ft per side, 3-3.5 oz in thickness,
and are very soft.
Priced at $70 each, 48-state
shipping included. AK and HI are just a bit more or, we can fold
these to fit in a flat rate box for no extra shipping costs.
Midas Gold Metallic Sides
$70 each, 48 state shipping included
Denim Printed
Cowhide Bends, Navy Bends running 4 to
4.5 oz in thickness (about 1/16") and 10 sq ft each, dyed navy, then imprinted
with a screen print and washed over with white to yield a pattern that
looks, well,
OK it looks weird but it's
got a lot of potential and just begs to be made into chair seats, counter
tops, or a big tall hat
(just roll it into a tube
and staple it together - you're done and you need counseling). Makes
great book covers, among other things.
This leather is a little
more firm than it looks - holds shape pretty well. Hey - nice hat.
Where'd you get that thing?
CLEARANCE!! $20 each
or ten for $120 - these prices include 48-state shipping
Qty
Or. flip them over and you've
got:
Navy Suede Bends ZIG-ZAG PATTERN CALF
SIDES, TAN COLOR These calf sides have been
vegetable tanned and then imprinted with a zig-zag fabric pattern, finished
with a nice tan color, and waterproofed. Great for upholstery work
and for projects that need
some texture showing. These are about 4 oz in thickness, but have
a boney temper, so they're not soft like garment leather.
Each side runs about 16
square feet, some as large as 18 square feet. Priced at $40 each,
which includes shipping by UPS to any location in the 48 contiguous United
States.
ZigZag Calf Sides
$40 each
Please note - For
Hides/Sides Under 3 oz in thickness please visit our Thin
Leathers Page
All prices include shipping
in the contiguous USA 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.
FISH
LEATHER! Thought you'd seen just
about everything in the world of leather? Well, maybe now you have.
Fish sides, scales removed, chrome-tanned, dyed all the way through, and
softened.
These have a rather rough
surface, left natural from when the scales were removed. A bit shaggy-looking,
but that way everyone can tell you're using fish leather. A very
cool thing to work with.
Thickness wise these run
about 4 oz or 1/16" thick, and are surprisingly sturdy. Tanned in
North America, carp or salmon.
We guess it's a lot like
the cowhide business, except we haven't been able to find any brands on
these hides. Apparently the legendary Carp Roundups will remain just
that - a legend.
Choose your color.
These ship free to all USA locations. Don't worry, we mail them to
you, we don't try to get them to swim it.
Fish hides are $15 each.
These average about 4 inches wide and 16 to 18 inches long.
Carp - Yellow Fish Hides
SOLD OUT!
Carp - Purplish-Blue Fish
Hides $15 each SOLD OUT!
Red-Orange - SOLD OUT!
Color
Prices shown above for all
of our fish leathers include shipping costs to any USA location. No need
to add one more cent to your purchase.
Sound fishy to you?
Heck, we've been doing business this way upcountry in Maine for 15 years,
and we're just gettin' stahhhhted.
WOVEN
LEATHER PANELS Nice calf leather, woven
into ready-to-use panels, in three color choices
Some projects call for a
panel of leather to fit into something like a book cover, a small chair
(for a doll, maybe), or the top of a shoe.
These are true woven panels
made from excellent quality calf leather, available in the three colors
shown above (black or burgundy).
They can be glued or sewn
directly to your project. All prices shown include shipping to any
USA location
Black panels measures about
6.5" by 7" Burgundy panels measure about 6.5" by
7"
Pricing is as shown on the
drop-down menu
(These are currently much
cheaper on our Deal
of the Week)
Color/Qty
These make great inlays:
Excellent work by Jeremy
Sehorne
Woven Thingamajigs Made to fit across the top
of your foot on a nice loafer, these are made from high quality calf skin
and are actually woven/braided. Each is about eight inches
long and 1.25" wide,
with that hole in the middle
that fits conveniently over your eyes if you want to use these on a mask.
You can also tape one across your mouth
and stick out your tongue
every so often, just to keep things interesting at your next PTA meeting.
Available in burgundy or brown, as shown.
Woven Strips
10 for $12, USA shipping
included
Color/Qty
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,
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Don't forget your shipping
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than two pounds). 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
P.O. Box 772
Auburn, ME 04212
(207)782-7863
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