Objects and garments worked from tanned animal hide by cutting, stitching, tooling or dyeing, one of the American Craft Council's own discipline categories. Belongs here: leather crafting as a practiced craft and its landmark tools, the awl, leather punch and skiving knife, along with the makers and institutions whose primary discipline is leather. Does not belong here: fiber crafts worked from spun or woven material, even where a finished object combines both.
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Leather making has been practiced for more than 7,000 years.
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