leather

durable and flexible material created by the tanning of animal rawhide and skin
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leather
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leather

Summary

leather ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,242 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • leather is made of hide[2].
  • leather is a type of clothing material[3].
  • leather is a type of animal product[4].
  • leather's Commons category is recorded as Leather[5].
  • leather's said to be the same as is recorded as Q65437819[6].
  • leather's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Leather[7].
  • leather's described at URL is recorded as https://andileather.com/leather-la-gi/[8].
  • leather's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as clothes=leather[9].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[12].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[16].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[17].
  • leather's described by source is recorded as Q111050693[18].
  • leather's used by is recorded as bag maker[19].
  • leather's different from is recorded as skin[20].
  • leather's different from is recorded as artificial leather[21].
  • leather's different from is recorded as bicast leather[22].
  • leather's fabrication method is recorded as tanning[23].
  • leather's exact match is recorded as https://archwort.dainst.org/de/term/2325[24].
  • leather's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include clothing material[3] and animal product[4].

Use and Application

leather's used by is recorded as bag maker[19].

Influence

Things named for leather include Vileda[26], a business[27], in Germany[28], founded in 1948[29], headquartered in Weinheim[30] and Leder[31], a family name[32].

Why It Matters

leather ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,242 views/month).[1] leather has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] leather is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for leather include Vileda[26], a business[27], in Germany[28], founded in 1948[29], headquartered in Weinheim[30] and Leder[31], a family name[32].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag leather
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: leather, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289947478|leather (#289947478)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6633, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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