Hand Painted Cow Hide

This cow has gone green, with rust spreading from the center.

This hand painted cow hide is contemporary, by Eccentric Luxuries for Primitive. A hide's irregular outline has long made it a favorite floor covering, and hand painting gives each one a surface no tannery could repeat. Blue-green rays burst from the middle of this skin, overlapping patches of dark rust on an ochre ground. The look is closer to oxidized copper than to any animal. Faint fold lines cross the middle. It runs 106.25 inches wide and 95.5 long.

A very old roof might look like this, given time.