You get crafting experience.
Making Leather stuff up to the reequired level, look at the highest level leather item you can do and use that to work your way up, that's how I got mine up.
get 10 defense, then buy your hard leather, and then you can wear it.
Leather Gloves
You can buy them from Thessalia in Varrock.
Just buy in Grand Exchange
the same way you make leather
you level up your crafting level by making certain items like leather gloves for starters but you have to know how to get leather first kill a cow and take it's hide to a tanner and the only one i know of is in al kharid.
He is in Al-Kharid *answer needs updated
They're for making ghost outfit in runescape
You take a piece of leather and a needle and then just use the needle on the leather and there you go: a coif. This is for high level crafting.
um, leather
Cowhides are tanned to make Leather or Hard Leather. These are then used in the Crafting skill to make various items, mostly useful to rangers. These include Leather gloves. Leather chaps, Coifs, Cowls, Vambraces, and Hardleather bodies.