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Has anyone seen Wested's "brown cow hide" lately? The website pic isn't very helpful, plus they write that it 'changes based on batch'.

Hopefully in the near future I'm going to get an LC jacket, but in a cow hide. I want to try to duplicate my old Disney World jacket's leather, which I believed was vegetable tanned cow. That thing was a delicious chocolate hershey-bar brown that distressed naturally to what looked like what I saw on screen...

Magnoli's White Label leather actually looks pretty good, too.

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Kokopelli wrote:Has anyone seen Wested's "brown cow hide" lately? The website pic isn't very helpful, plus they write that it 'changes based on batch'.

Hopefully in the near future I'm going to get an LC jacket, but in a cow hide. I want to try to duplicate my old Disney World jacket's leather, which I believed was vegetable tanned cow. That thing was a delicious chocolate hershey-bar brown that distressed naturally to what looked like what I saw on screen...

Magnoli's White Label leather actually looks pretty good, too.

Wested used to send out hide samples and I imagine they still do, so that's probably the best first step. Obviously there will be small changes between batches of the leather as Wested said (that's the same for absolutely every leather product from every maker) but you'll get a good, general idea of the hide, colour, thickness, hand and how it feels.

I'm a big fan of cowhide, it's tough, has nice grain and usually weathers and develops bags of character. I posted pics of my Wested cowhide, albeit the discontinued "soft seal brown cowhide" but if their current cowhide is similar in terms of weight and how it wears it should be very nice.