How to buy a quality sheepskin rug

I’m looking to buy a sheepskin rug, what qualities should I look for?

Sheepskin comes in all sorts of different hair types, just like human hair. Now we are not simply talking about colour but thickness and how it’s been kept. An important part is also the tanning process which is basically how they treat the sheepskin and make it into the lovely rugs and products we have today. All these things have their part to play…

1. The sheepskin rug should be thick with hair in other words dense. A good rug should have many hairs like the one’s at British Sheepskin. We source only the best sheep which all have many hairs per square inch. 

2. It should feel really soft when you run your hands through the sheepskin rug. Almost as if you are swimming through a cloud. Here at British Sheepskin we hand test each and every rug to make sure it scores highly on the fluffy scale.

3. The tanning process is important to sheepskin rugs. Now of course we don’t want to bore you but there are certain ways to do this which speed up the process. Especially with today’s mentality a lot of manufacturers use a speedy process, here at British Sheepskin we make sure we do it the right way. Takes longer but ensures a better product.

4. One of the tests to see the quality of the sheepskin rug is by how many hairs you can hold it up by. Here at British Sheepskin we would take the Pepsi challenge against many rugs out there. Take one of the faux (fake) sheepskin rugs or even a low quality rug and hold it up by a pinch and you will see for yourself.

Without going into too much detail at this stage this should put you in good shape to buy a sheepskin rug. You can be sure that all our rugs at British Sheepskin are of the highest quality out there. Our family has been doing this for over 25 years.