leather industry
Animal skin trade
The leather industry encompasses the businesses and processes involved in converting animal hides into leather and manufacturing leather goods.
This includes tanning operations, which transform raw hides into durable material, and the production of shoes, bags, belts, upholstery, and clothing.
The leather industry has faced criticism from animal rights activists.
The term often appears in discussions of environmental regulation, since tanning uses chemicals that can pollute waterways.
- cowhideTanned bovine leather
- animal hidesSkins from beasts
- tanningCuring hides or bronzing
- handbagsPortable personal storage accessories
- goatskinTanned caprine hide
footwear · work boots · sheepskin · cordwainer · belts · rawhide · liming · sustainability · buffing · full grain · splitting · saddlery · ethical sourcing · Kolkata · currying · exports · awl · harness
- BajioGuanajuato, Leon, Salamanca, Victoria, colonial architecture
- Fulton CountyJohnstown, Mayfield, Northampton
- animal crueltyanimal abuse, animal cruelty, dogfighting, neglect, torture
- livestockcow, cows, cattle, bull, bulls
- German Brazil
- Kanpur