Crafting - Leather

Leather is a supple and lightweight form of armour that gives the flexibility that rangers desire while fighting.

Leather comes in four forms:

• Soft leather (made from cowhide)
  
• Hard leather (made from cowhide)
  
• Snakeskin (made from snake hide) Members Only
  
• Dragon leather (made from dragonhide) Members Only
  

Tool	Location Found	Use
Cowhide	Kill a cow	Can be given to a tanner to turn into leather.
Snake hide	Bush snakes (Tai Bwo Wannai Clean-Up) Giant snakes (Temple Trekking)	Can be given to a tanner to turn into snakeskin.
Dragonhide	Kill a green, blue, red or black dragon depending on which hide you want.	Can be given to a tanner to turn into dragon leather.
Needle	Crafting stores sell them.	Use a needle with some prepared leather to make armour (requires thread to work).
Thread	Crafting stores sell them.	You need thread in your inventory with a needle to craft leather armour.

Once you have your hides, you will need to take them to a tanner, they can be found in Varrock, Al Kharid, the Crafting Guild or Canifis. Look out for this symbol on your minimap to help you locate the person you are looking for. The table below should give you an idea of how much each type of hide costs to cure:

Hide Name	Leather Type	Tanning Cost - Guild/Al Kharid	Tanning Cost - Sbott (Canifis)
Cowhide	Leather (soft)	1 gp	2 gp
Cowhide	Leather (hard)	3 gp	5 gp
Snake hide	Snakeskin	15 gp (20 for giant snake hide)	25 gp
Green dragonhide	Green dragon leather	20 gp	45 gp
Blue dragonhide	Blue dragon leather	20 gp	45 gp
Red dragonhide	Red dragon leather	20 gp	45 gp
Black dragonhide	Black dragon leather	20 gp	45 gp

Once you have had your hides turned into leather you are almost ready to begin, all you need now is a needle and some thread. You will only need one needle to craft with and each roll of thread will last four uses.


The most basic form of leather-working is the art of Crafting soft leather into armour, this is a reasonably easy way of mastering the Crafting skill, as there are plenty of cows around Lumbridge from which you can receive hide. The tanners in Al Kharid or Varrock are not far from Lumbridge, and they have crafting stores too. Gathering the required items and finding people to sell your goods to should provide little challenge, especially if you gather your resources on a quiet world and then move to a busier one to sell your wares.

Item	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Leather gloves	1	Soft leather Needle Thread	13.8
Leather boots	7	Soft leather Needle Thread	16.3
Leather cowl	9	Soft leather Needle Thread	18.5
Leather vambraces	11	Soft leather Needle Thread	22
Leather body	14	Soft leather Needle Thread	25
Leather chaps	18	Soft leather Needle Thread	27
Coif	38	Soft leather Needle Thread	37

Feather Headdresses
Summoning makes use of feather headdresses to allow summoners to store scrolls for use in combat (or simply to save some inventory space). These can be crafted using coloured feathers from bird snaring and a coif.

Item	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Feather headdress	79	Coif 20 Hunter feathers	50

For more information about what feather headdresses can do, please read Summoning - Items.


When your Crafting level has advanced enough, you can take leather Crafting to the next level : Crafting hard leather. Not only are these items more sought after, but they provide improved protection than soft leather goods, meaning the profit you can gain from selling them is larger.

Item	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Hard leather body	28	Hard leather Needle Thread	35
Studded body	41	Soft leather Needle Thread Studs*	40
Studded leather chaps	44	Soft leather Needle Thread Studs*	42

^* For more information on how to make studs please visit the Smithing section of our manual.


Snake skin can be aquired by taking part in the Tai Bwo Wannai Clean Up (requires completion of Jungle Potion) or it can be cut from dead giant snakes that you kill in Temple Trekking.

When you have your tanned snake hide it may be used to make the following items:

Item Name	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Snakeskin boots	45	6 snake leathers Needle Thread	30
Snakeskin vambraces	47	8 snake leathers Needle Thread	35
Snakeskin bandanna	48	5 snake leathers Needle Thread	45
Snakeskin chaps	51	12 snake leathers Needle Thread	50
Snakeskin body	53	15 snake leathers Needle Thread	55

Once you have successfully gathered a number of your chosen dragonhides, you will need to get them tanned (for 20 gp a time) before they are ready to be made into armour. However, with that done you can begin crafting items as shown below:

Green Dragonhide Items

Item Name	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Green dragonhide vambraces	57	Green dragon leather Needle Thread	62
Green dragonhide chaps	60	2 green dragon leathers Needle Thread	124
Green dragonhide body	63	3 green dragon leathers Needle Thread	186

Blue Dragonhide Items

Item Name	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Blue dragonhide vambraces	66	Blue dragon leather Needle Thread	70
Blue dragonhide chaps	68	2 blue dragon leathers Needle Thread	140
Blue dragonhide body	71	3 blue dragon leathers Needle Thread	210

Red Dragonhide Items

Item Name	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Red dragonhide vambraces	73	Red dragon leather Needle Thread	78
Red dragonhide chaps	75	2 red dragon leathers Needle Thread	156
Red dragonhide body	77	3 red dragon leathers Needle Thread	234

Black Dragonhide Items

Item Name	Crafting Level Required	Tools Required	Experience Points Gained
Black dragonhide vambraces	79	Black dragon leather Needle Thread	86
Black dragonhide chaps	82	2 black dragon leathers Needle Thread	172
Black dragonhide body	84	3 black dragon leathers Needle Thread	258

Those who enjoy Hunter as much as their Crafting will be able to attach spikes to their leather and dragon vambraces. With a Crafting skill of 32, you can 'use' the kebbit claws, caught from a deadfalled wild kebbit, onto any dragon or leather vambrace to add a +2 boost to your Strength stat.

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