Hand Painted Cow Hide

Plum-colored rain, running down a pale hide.

This hand painted cow hide is contemporary, from Eccentric Luxuries for Primitive. Skin takes color unevenly, and a painter working on hide accepts that the material has a say in the outcome, which is what gives rugs like this their one-off character. Streaks of deep plum fall in wavering vertical lines across a cream ground, thick in the middle and thinner toward the edges. The natural outline remains. It measures 105 inches wide and 89 long.

White sofas may want to discuss this first.