We only supply quality sheep skins and cattle hides, produced from our trusted and approved suppliers all over South Africa.
Cape Hide Traders is a registered export store for wet salted cattle hides and sheep skins and is situated in the Helderberg Area, close to Cape Town Harbor, South Africa.
Merino Skins:
We supply excellent quality Merino sheep skins with various wool lengths. Western Cape is well known for it's quality sheep skins and is it our guarantee to our clients. Merino skins are usually shaved for their quality wool and are the skins used for cloves, handbags, belts, etc.
Dorper Skins:
We also offer Dorper sheep skins. Dorper skins are regarded among the best in the world. It has no wrinkles and a smooth grain. It is used in the manufacture of high quality leather clothes and gloves.
These skins are a sought-after export product, and few Dorper skins are used locally in the leather industry. Pickled Dorper skins are mostly sold for export at good prices. The grain of the skin takes up half of the total thickness of the skin. Glands are not well developed in the grain, as the grain consists of a network of strong collagen fibers. This network of collagen fibres makes the leather exceptionally strong. Collagen is the material that forms the leather.
A sheep skin with a lot of hair closely resembles a goatskin. The fibers of a Dorperskin are delicate, but the skin structure is tighter and denser that that of goatskins or wool skins. The weave angle of Dorper skin fibers is flat – a feature that strengthens the leather further.
Cattle Hides:
Originate from the Western Cape and Northern Cape Areas.
Please inquire about the specifications.
We offer our products as as follow:
*Machine Flayed Drum Salted/Wet Salted
*Wet Blue
Please inquire about any other processes.
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