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Leather lamp shades create remarkable rustic lighting. The varieties of shade colors are perfect for any southwestern home, cabin or country style. Each pig skin shade is hand stitched with natural rawhide lacing that will accent any western table or floor lamp. You will even love the small shades for outstanding chandeliers that illuminate your home.
Dyed leather lampshades are so great that they are even used in many restaurants for beautiful rustic lighting. I have seen in a lot of southwestern restaurants in west Texas that leather shades are used for their decorative lighting. The beautiful glow that is created looks wonderful whether they are used in businesses or in the comfort of your own home.
Maybe you are looking for unique kitchen lighting. A soft pig skin suede shade would be the best way to accomplish that feat. Your southwest chandelier will look incredible with these beautiful leather shades. The shade colors available will definitely meet your southwestern home decor needs. One gentleman had a rustic antler chandelier above his dining room table. He chose to accent his rustic lighting with gold colored pig skin shades. They truly brought the dining room decor to life.
Your living room table and floor lamps will also look exceptional with their own colored leather shades. I have even seen hand painted shades that really enhance a southwestern style home. You may be like me, and like a change once in a while. I love to change out my leather shades to bring new and rich color into the room. Why not switch the shades around to keep your guests intrigued every time they come to visit.
One basic fact I love about pig skin leather shades is that they do not split like rawhide shades can which makes them able to be used with higher wattage lamps. The lamps that I use frequently are topped with outstanding leather lamp shades to give my home a more inviting feel with its enticing warmth.
In your rustic bedroom, leather lamp shades will enhance the room by bringing out the natural beauty that has been created by your home decor. Any western or southwestern lamp will be completed with its own pig skin shade as an accent in your rustic style bedroom. You will enjoy these high quality lampshades as a perfect addition to your interior lighting no matter which room you use them in.
These beautiful leather shades are used with a lot of cabin and lodge decor. When choosing your cabin lighting, you may choose to go with more of the wildlife and knotty pine look. Painted leather lamp shades are perfect for those types of cabin decorating. Hand painted scenes of moose, elk and deer are very popular for cabin owners. However, the cowboy cattle drives and horse scenes are also popular for southwestern cabin decor.
Decorative lighting can be accomplished by using either a plain dyed pig skin or hand painted leather lampshade. Both styles of shades make an outstanding addition to your western or rustic fixture. These shades are a perfect highlight for any southwest lamps or rustic furniture.
Leather lamp shades are definitely a perfect way to enhance the western beauty of your southwest home. From table and floor lamps to chandeliers, you will love how pig skin leather shades truly bring out your southwestern decor. Your home lighting will never be the same when you bring leather lamp shades into your rooms.
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Does the skin pattern in fake leather (leatherette) originally come from a real cow?
Did someone take an impression of real leather in order to emboss this into plastics, or is the texture created using some chemical method?
Here’s an example of the texture I mean: http://www.automobiletrim.com/images/vinyls/heavy.jpg
You sometimes see it in car dashboards etc, I assume to provide grip and reduce the appearance of marks.
I assume cows would have unique skin patterns, much like fingerprints. If real cow skin patterns are used, would that make the cow immortalised in texture form?
You’re right. The original and unique fauxcow (p. faow cow) texture was taken from a German cow called Fidel in the early 1930s. This cow (technically a bull, but with the same skin texture shared by all bovines) was selected by Hindu priests as it was believed that he carried the immortal soul of Mahatma Gandhi. This was considered odd at the time considering that Gandhi was alive and well as of 1948, but just as god(s) move in mysterious ways, so do souls through the esoteria of reincarnation.
So this, the holiest of cow skin textures was used far and wide until 1971, when a legal dispute broke out over royalty and copyrights (dubbed in the press at the time as a ‘Cowpyright Dispute’) many fake-fake-cow textures began to proliferate on the ‘black and white’ market. These cheap copies were created from imprinting many non-bovines, for fear of retaliation from the truly violent and vindictive ‘Pro-Gandhi Vendetta Militia’. Toads, snakes, limas, merecats and labrador puppies were common targets for replica cow skin textures. Sadly the process was invariably cruel and often fatal, but in a twist of irony, animal rights activists hunted down and killed those in the fauxfauxcow trade. Some of these textures still exist today in cheaply manufactured goods and Ford automobiles. The original design however is said to bring peace and harmony to products manufactured by those companies that can afford the exorbitant licensing costs. Hinda (Hindu owned Honda) even claim that if you are run down by one of their cars featuring the original leatherette motif, you are assured to be ‘reincownated’ in a higher caste.
So in answer to your question, yes: While the original soul of the Gandhi-cow (bull) invariably lives on in some mystical form, all those that have been touched in some way since (probably a violent high-speed encownter) have also been assured a place in cowtopia.
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