Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhide and skins. The most common raw material is cattle hide. It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from artisan to modern industrial scale.
Leather usage has come under criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries by animal rights groups. These groups claim that buying or wearing leather is unethical because producing leather requires animals to be killed However, according to the LCA report for the United Nations Industrial Development Organziation, 99% of the raw hides and skins used in the production of leather derive from animals raised for meat production.
Tanning is a process that stabilizes the proteins, particularly collagen, of the raw hide to increase the thermal, chemical and microbiological stability of the hides and skins, making it suitable for a wide variety of end applications. The principal difference between raw and tanned hides is that raw hides dry out to form a hard, inflexible material that, when rewetted, will putrefy, while tanned material dries.
| Attributes | Values |
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| Color | blue, red, yellow, green |
| Material | wood, plastic, stainless steel |
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