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Animal hide comes in various useful forms for crafting, ranging from leather, skin, hide or even wings and spider silk. These items can be crafted into armour that offers various benefits and boosts when worn.
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)
- Dragon leather (made from dragonhide)
Once you have your hides, you will need to take them to a tanner. Tanners can be found in Burthorpe 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. It is also possible to use the Make Leather spell, found in your lunar spellbook, to tan 5 hides at a time.
The table below should give you an idea of how much each type of hide costs to cure:
& Free from Jack Oval in Burthorpe. ^ 20 gp for giant snake hide
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.
Leather Items
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.
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.
Enhanced Armour
Some leather items can have their armour improved by attaching studs. For more information on how to make studs please visit the Smithing section.
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 (with the exception of royal) or leather vambrace. Adding claws will increase the toughness of the armour, giving you a boost to your armour and constitution bonuses over their non-spiked equivalents.
Snakeskin
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:
Green Dragonhide
Blue Dragonhide
Red Dragonhide
Black Dragonhide
Royal Dragonhide
Hide
Other types of animal products, besides leather, can also be used to craft armour. Unlike leather, these items don't require tanning and can be used in their current form to create armour and weaponry - if you have the proper tools. There are 4 types of hide:
Imphide
Spider silk
Carapace
Bat wing
Imphide
Spider silk
Carapace
Bat wing
Other Items
Yak-hide
After completing The Fremennik Isles you'll be able to kill Yaks to obtain their hides, and then speak to Thakkrad Sigmundson to get these hides cured. The cured hides can then be used to make a tough armour.
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.
& Red feathers, Orange feathers, Yellow feathers, Blue feathers or Stripy feathers
For more information about what feather headdresses can do, please read Summoning Items.
