City Cows at Grand Designs London 2012
City Cows at Grand Designs 2012 Grand Designs is one of the best and busiest high-end retail home and gardens show in the UK so it was only natural that City Cows would wish to take the opportunity to exhibit our greatest ever range of cowhide rugs and cowhide accessories to the crowds that have flocked to the week long show. Our founder has just returned from a recent sourcing trip to our tannery in Columbia so we had a wide range of styles , colours and finishes to display. Alex – our trade show salesman in chief  has only just recovered his breath from a record breaking show at Earl’s Court and he reprised his role as salesman in chief to our best ever stand on the Design Arcade. Children and adults alike couldn’t resist touching and stroking the luxurious cowhide and reindeer skins with a lustrous velvety touch. In keeping with the tradition of videoing our shows and products so present and future customers alike can see the wide range and quality of the UK’s leading importer and online retailer of cowhide rugs , cowhide accessories, sheepskins and reindeer skins we’ve made a HD video of City Cows [...]

City Cows at the Ideal Home Show
City Cows continues it’s run of successful Retail Trade Shows with a record breaking run at the Ideal Homes Exhibition at Earl’s Court  on March 16th to the 1st April. We did record breaking sales of our unrivalled range of cowhide rugs and accessories and cowhide furniture to many new customers who have now joined the City Cows revolution. We managed to secure a great corner spot near to the entrance and Alex our sales guy was kept really busy as a stream of interested viewers and customers came to feel, inspect and sometimes buy one of the fastest growing home furnishing retail product from the UK’s leading online retailer and importer of chromium tanned cowhide rugs and accessories. Each cow skin is hand picked by our founder on his regular trips to our Columbian tanneries to ensure that City Cows sources and sells only the best possible hides – so why not take a quick look at the video of our show and visit our website – we’ve now got more cowhides than ever before.  

Five Reasons To Love Cowhide Rugs
Here at www.citycows.co.uk we know everything there is to know about cowhide rugs, and love all the great features and benefits cowhide can bring to your home.  In this fun post we celebrate all things cowhide, and the top five reasons to love it. The Funky Factor – Nobody can deny the fun and funky factor of cow skin rugs.  The range of colours and markings is simply amazing and everybody will be able to find a colour which is suitable for their home.  Available in every colour imaginable from bright orange to natural tan and white we are sure you will agree with us that cow skins will bring that certain something to your home. A Family Favourite – Cowhides are certain to be a hit with the whole family and we often have many customers telling us they are loved by all including the family cat or dog.  The durable quality of the cowhide means the hide will last for years as any stains or spills simply wipe away with a damp sponge.  that means the paw prints from your four-legged friends will easily be removed to restore your cow skin rug to it’s former glory. The Versatile Factor [...]

City Cows Features At Ideal Home Show
City Cows recently exhibited at the multi-award number one home lifestyle event the Ideal Home Show at Earls Court, London.  The show was a huge success and as usual was well attended. This huge 17 day event is a unique, not-to-be-missed shopping experience.  Our stand went down well with the thousands of avid shoppers ready to see our display of coloured and natural cowhides, reindeer hides and sheepskin rugs. Click on the link  to see our You Tube video of our stand at the event. If you missed us at the show don’t despair as you can still buy our cowhide rugs online, or call one of our friendly sales advisors to make an appointment for viewings in London on 07858 222 841.  

Metallic Cowhides – The Latest Home Accessory
Hop on the latest interior design trend and glam up your home with one of City Cows’ latest additions, metallic cowhide rugs.  These stylish cowhides are unique and luxurious, and are guaranteed to add a one-off look to your home interior. Our metallic cow skin rugs are available in a choice of gold, silver, red and silver, and black and silver. As with all our hides these cow skins are are cut to a pleasing aesthetic shape.  They are available in a variety of sizes ranging from approximately 180 x 180 cm upwards depending on the natural size of the cow skin.  Our metallic cow skins make great rugs, furniture throws or home accessories and can be placed on a sofa, end of the bed, or over the arm of a chair to create a unique and original look in your home. Prices start from £375.00 for the smaller sized hides, up to £395.00 for the larger sized metallic cowhides. As with all or cowhides, metallic hides are easy to clean, requiring very little maintenance.  Simply wipe away any spills or stains witha  damp sponge to restore your cow hide to it’s former glory.

Twenty Fast Facts About All Things Cowhide – Part 2
In my last blog article we referred to the 20 fast facts about all things cowhide that we have written for the Info section of the City Cows website – well the previous blog referred to the first ten facts – well thanks for holding your breath but I’m delighted to bring you cowhide and cow fast facts 11 -20 with a bonus 21st fact thrown in for good measure. As Batman might say Holy Cow Batman (that’s fast cowhide fact number 18). Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them. But to be a bit serious now we do this at City Cows because we have an unrivalled passion for building the UK’s leading specialist importer and internet only retailer of cowhide skin rugs and carpets, cowhide accessories and footstools and a wealth of other fashionable and stylish items for your home. Why not check out our new faux fur section of have a look at the uber-fashionable funky coloured cowhides – indeed there’s never been a better time to buy from City Cows. We hope to see you soon.

Twenty Fast Facts About All Things Cowhide – Part 1
Here at City Cows we really are passionate about our cowhide and all the things associated with this wonderfully versatile and natural product. We spend so much time obsessing about all the details that go into ensuring you get the highest quality affordable cowhide rugs and carpets and cowhide accessories that we developed an interest in the wider world of cowhide. So with this in mind I though I would compile a list – as everybody loves a list with twenty fast facts about all things cowhide and put it over on the Info section of the City Cows website. Hope you are stimulated and educated by it – my favourite cowhide fact and one to remember for when conversations are flagging down the pub is that a single cowhide is enough to make 18 footballs !  And as Alan Partridge would say on that bombshell I leave you to go and have a look at out twenty fast facts about all things cowhide Part 1 – part 2 follows shortly. Don’t forget City Cows as the UK’s leading importer and retailer of all things cowhide stands ready for you to have a look at our unrivalled collection of over [...]

How to pick the best colour of cowhide for your home or office
Cowhide colours are one of the most important considerations to make when deciding on which cowhide rug or carpet to buy. Joining the natural shades which include brindle, the black and white of the Holstein cowhides and other natural shades of cowhide are the new modern innovative dyed cowhide skins and prints. Modern dyeing techniques allow for a wide variety of vibrant hues and shades to be included in the contemporary cowhide palette. These colours are fixed into to the skin so much so that they look as if they are part of the cowhide itself. Indeed you can be forgiven for thinking there‘s such a thing as a crimson cowhide animal skin ! Also extremely popular are the metallic range of cowhide skins which includes metallic silver and gold as well as metallic bronze coloured cowhide skins. To help you decide which is the right cowhide colour for you we have added an article to the Info section of the City Cows website entitled How to pick the best colour of cowhide skin for your home or office. Take a moment to read the article and hopefully once you’ve surveyed the wide range of colours and styles available you [...]

Hanging a cowhide rug or carpet to the wall
In my last blog post on the City Cows blog I mentioned we would be adding more useful and informative articles on all thing cowhide and other animal skins onto our Info section of the City Cows website. This second article will hopefully help to answer a common query we receive at City Cows which is how to hang a cowhide rug or carpet onto the wall. Cowhide skins make a dramatic addition to any room and when displayed to their full glory on a wall add impact and power to any sort of room. As a job – as ever it’s easy to do it badly but with a little preparation and planning it is a relatively easy task for anyone to perform. So please have a look at our article and consider adding cowhide to your list of decorations for your home. Of course we at City Cows would be delighted to supply you with some of the UK’s finest and affordable chromium tanned cowhide rugs and accessories – affordable because we source directly from Columbia and sell to you at the keenest possible – internet only prices.

Removing creases easily from a cowhide rug or carpet
Yellow Black & Brown Cowhide Rug Welcome back to City Cows cowhide blog on all things Cowhide. Over at the main City Cows website we are beginning a project to assemble lots of useful information about animal hide skins and tips and useful ideas about how to care for them and their history and role in contemporary design. We will be adding new articles on regular basis so bookmark the page and come back regularly. As we write each new article I will be featuring it in the City Cows cowhide blog and the latest article is entitled How to remove creases easily from a cowhide rug or carpet. At City Cows we take especial care to ensure our animal hide skins reach you in the best possible condition and you will rarely need to use the process – if however a minor crease or wrinkle should be in your cowhide when you receive it don’t worry just by following this very simple procedure you will have a beautiful, pristine just-bought cowhide skin from the very beginning. City Cows – over 7 years bringing the Great British public only the best and most affordable, chromium tanned cowhide rugs and carpets [...]