Reed Leather Hides - Cow Skins (8 inches X 11 Inches, Natural Finish Cow leather)

The leather piece I needed mine for is for an executive size office chair (12" x 24" cut) as I needed 6" x 12" for each arm rest. I just folded this piece in half and cut evenly in half. The rectangular shape you receive is a bit more than 12" wide, but is 24" in length. No worries that the piece you get is unusual cuts or anything. Just a straight 12" x 24" piece is what you'll get. but I understand the concern, as I thought the same thing.The leather smells and feels like genuine leather. It's not too thick and not too thin. I have a photo of what I was replacing it with. The old is on the left side and the new piece of leather is on the right in one of the later photos. It appears to be almost a millimeter more in thickness. However, due to the age of my old arm rest's leather, wearing down and shrinking from usage, it may have been the same as the new leather's thickness.The leather is not so thick that it isn't pliable enough to wrap-fold the rounded edges of the arm rests, it is firm but bendable to not leave fold marks too much. Being my first time, that was the most difficult part. I also use the scrap piece of trim for the underside of the arm rest from the old arm rests to keep it stable and hopefully durable. It worked, it's really strong and aestethically pleasing having a beaded edge look to it as it was before.Each photo has different lighting, night time when I was done and how it appears in tghe day's blue hue lighting so you could see the leather's color and sheen. The leather's sheen does match the unworn cushioned back side of my desk chair. These photos were taken before I got all the duct tape off and the leftover duct tape's glue residue that I hadn't cleaned off yet when I took these photos.Today is February 10, 2023 and the job has been done and in use for 8 days so far. Since reupholstering and cleaning the rest of the duct tape's glue residue, it's back to almost new looking again. The important part is folding over the rounded edges if redoing the leather covers on the arm rests and making sure you use the right size staples with stapler. I used a Stanley ProSharpShooter stapler and half inch/12mm staples, when I could have used 3/8" even 5/16" to staple the leather onto the arm rest internal boards. I just pounded them down with a hammer and checked to make sure they were stapled in firmly and not loose. My suggestion, just make sure to check for any welt impressions from misaligned padding or in need of a bit of padding, or staples, wood, etc., etc. on the exposed top part you're covering before stapling down your new leather. I do have one spot on my left arm rest with a bump, not sure what it is though, but the padding must have been worn. Hopefully this company will be around if it happens to wear down and come through.This as good as it gets though, for less than $20, and not having to buy some really expensive-not so good of materials type of desk chair they're out there selling now (but I do have an extra new desk chair now that I bought a new one from Amazon as I thought of this restore project AFTERWARDS haha)All in all, I'm glad I found this company on Amazon and was able to get the exact size I needed without wasting a bunch of leather, if it had been too large for my project. It turned out great and will last who know how many more years, maybe 5, 10 years?Thanks, Reed Leathers Hides. Now there's one less thing in the landfill and getting more use out of a completely perfect desk chair. I fully recommend this Amazon seller ✪✰✪✰✪

This leather is very pliable with a smooth pebble finish on one side and soft suede on the other, making it very easy to work with. The color is evenly dyed on both sides. Very, very pleased with this purchase.

Very beautiful leather, very easy to work with.Doesn't stamp very good though because it is so soft and thin.

This leather will be perfect for my bookmaking project. Exactly as I imagined it would be. Soft and supple, beautiful color.

Used this leather to add texture to my African pillows! Hot glue gun worked like a charm!!

the softness of the leather pieces was perfect, as was the color consistency and thickness throughout. Excellent quality at a reasonable price.

The quality of the leather exactly what I needed. I was looking for something to repair it pair of cowboy boots that my dog chewed.

pretty good just not a solid five star, would reccomend

Reed 12x24 inch Black hide - True to size, soft leather, appears uniform thickness, no blemishes & no strong unpleasant odour, smells like leather. Only query, in section it appears to be two layers bonded together, could be wrong, under side is also black...not sure it would be hard wearing enough for a seat base, light usage functions I.e. table top, pouch, liner, tool roll, etc....would buy again if need arose....

I orderd the brown 12x24" sheet as this was the only one in the UK and it was exactly sized and high quality leather perfect for my needs.will definatley order from here again, i just wish there was more items from the diverse selection here in the UK as 14.99 shipping and waiting several weeks is a big put offvery satisfied highly reccomend

I bought this leather to make my brother a nice coin pouch,and so far it is working very well.

Not a bad piece of leather. I bought it for the lining of holsters and the like but, once bought, decided it was too good, so I’m saving it for any future project where it’s thickness etc is appropriate.

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