Comments on: Design Dilemma: Cowhide — Or Not? http://www.homedesignfind.com/how-to-tips-advice/design-dilemma-cowhide-or-not/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:57:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mfundi Vundla http://www.homedesignfind.com/how-to-tips-advice/design-dilemma-cowhide-or-not/#comment-17455 Mfundi Vundla Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:46:19 +0000 http://www.homedesignfind.com/?p=9102#comment-17455 cow hide has always served as floor cover in African hoseholds from time immemorial to the present. In addition it functions as clothing, Among the Swazi people of southern Africa the dead are covered in cowhide and then buried. Sometimes the cowhide of a cow covers the buried casket. A friend of mine makes sculptures from cowhide. So you see cow hide is indeed whether its the in thing or the out thing, it always has been with us. Those of us not consumed by concrete. cow hide has always served as floor cover in African hoseholds from time immemorial to the present. In addition it functions as clothing, Among the Swazi people of southern Africa the dead are covered in cowhide and then buried. Sometimes the cowhide of a cow covers the buried casket.

A friend of mine makes sculptures from cowhide. So you see cow hide is indeed whether its the in thing or the out thing, it always has been with us. Those of us not consumed by concrete.

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