Cowboy boots are traditionally made of smooth cowhide, though occasionally a boot style may be of a suede or roughout look.
It has 10 times the tensile strength of cowhide and is 50% stronger than goatskin.
Up until the 1980s, the most common mounting system used twisted strips of cowhide as rope.
The tanner replies that he has heard nothing save that cowhides are in great demand.
In a typical week, it processes 4,000 cowhides and 1,000 horsehides into 120000 sqft of leather.
I have used cowhide as a means to subvert expected associations with corporeal presence, femininity, sexuality and vulnerability.
They also created a skin from shark cartilage and cowhide.
The cowhides were staked out to dry and the tallow was put in large cowhide bags.
