For the ultimate
automobile/motorcycle/home upholstery application or custom jacket project,
exclusive LOST WORLDS
chrome-tanned American Horsehide Leather -- unrivalled for beauty,
durability, water resistance, scarcity and cache. Available from 3.0 - 4.5 oz./sq.
ft. per customer
requirement. Unobtainable in this quality anywhere else. The same hides we use in
LOST WORLDS jackets -- the benchmark for classic American Flight,
Motorcycle and Rugged Leather Outerwear. Traditional cowhide leather trim pales in
comparison. Fabulous grain, hand, comfort. Used in the oldest
vintage cars and aircraft. If anyone claims cow and horse are
comparable, he's trying to sell you cow -- or a cow byproduct!
The American military and civilian motorcycle industry always
specified horsehide for high performance uses before the
disappearance of the commercial horse industry following WWII. Among
the knowledgeable, there's horsehide, then everything else. Be
warned, though -- just because it's horsehide doesn't
mean it's primo horsehide, just like anything else -- and some hides
dubbed horsehide are cowhide. There's a lot of duplicity out there
on the web and there's a lot of terrible thin, imported,
plasticized, split horsehides and pseudo-horsehides as well.
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