We do not sell rugs. We hand on hides.
Marrow & Hide began with a simple irritation: cowhide rugs were being sold as a category, with one photograph standing in for hundreds of hides and a size given as a round number that was never true. A hide is a single object. It deserves a single record — a number, a photograph, real measurements, and a price that reflects the one animal it came from.
12
weeks of cure
1 of 1
every specimen
40
hides finished a month
30
days to live with it
Three months, start to number.
Bought by eye
We select in person at the ranch, never from a catalogue of averages. Thin hair, even back, no patchiness — three hides in ten make it through.
Cured, not rushed
Vegetable re-tanning and a twelve-week cure. It is the slowest step and the only reason a hide does not shed on your floor in year three.
Finished by hand
Buffed with the grain, backed with wool-blend felt, hand-numbered. Our makers finish fewer than forty hides a month.
Kept for life
Send a hide back any year and we will clean, re-finish and return it. The number stays the same; the rug just gets quieter.
A hide should soften a room, not decorate it.
We advise on placement before you buy: how much floor a hide should cover, which way the pattern should run against a window, and where a small field beats a large one. Send a photograph of the room and we will answer honestly — including when a hide is the wrong idea.
Send a photograph