Leather was one of our Ancestors' earliest discoveries and was used from around 7000BC. One of the first tanning operations was discovered in modern day Iraq and dates back to around 5000BC. The oldest leather shoe, complete with leather shoelaces, dates back to around 3500BC in Armenia and in Ancient Egypt, leather was used to make chariot harnesses and couplings from around 3100BC.

Primitive Man hunted animals for food and used the skins for protection to combat harsh conditions and to offer a shield against predators. Eventually, early man started making clothing, footwear, crude tents and even armoury from leather. Animal skins were initially 'cured' by laying them in the sun to dry and anointing them with animal fats to make them waterproof. Later on skins were prepared by tanning. Tanning is the process by which animal hide ('raw hide') is transformed from a material which will rot and decay, into leather.

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