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

Once you have your hides, you will need to take them to a tanner, they can be found in Al Kharid, the Crafting Guild or Canifis. Look out for this symbol on your mini-map 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:

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 tanner in Al Kharid is not far from Lumbridge and there is a Crafting Store in Al Kharid, 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.

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.

^* 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 the Temple Trekking minigame.

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

Once you have successfully gathered a number of your chosen dragonhides, you will need to get them tanned (for 20 gold pieces 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

Blue Dragonhide Items

Red Dragonhide Items

Black Dragonhide Items

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.

Click here to view the Crafting FAQs