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Leather's flexibility can be useful when making containers, coverings, or wrappings. With special treatment at seams, these can be weather resistant. With another kind of treatment leather can be used as a protective covering, or even a kind of armoring, or special apron. It can be used to construct shoes and foot coverings. Leather can be used as straps, or in place of a rope. Because it is flexible and somewhat compressible, leather used to be useful to mate surfaces together sometimes, and as a washer (nuts and bolts washer), but this is now obsoleted with newer materials. When designs or patterns have been hammered or pressed into the leather, it can be partly or entirely decorative; which means leatherworking is included in Arts and Crafts.

Because of the source of leather, some traditional uses of leather are in coverings of saddles, boots, chaps, tack, indigenous water bags, and other ranch/outdoor types of pursuits.

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