The inscriptions in the mythologies suggest that leather was used by the sage and hermits.Folks were wearing skin and pelts of the animals likelion, tiger, beer and deer and others' since the big bang. Anthropologists and historians advocates that the man of olden days was in the habit of wearing the skin of beast for covering his body as well as protecting himself form cold and sun. Ages ago, when animal were hunted for food the skin with fur and fleece over it was hurled out thinking a useless thing. But in the time of need, when man was troubled by the wintry ice and inferno of summer, stings and gnaws of insects would had propelled him to pick up the veil of skin to shield himself from all the odds.

However, leather has been in use in the human society for a stacks of role. It was inured to be have on the body. It is also used in making footwear and garments too. With change of time and necessity leather is used for making many thing from attires like footwear and body wear to decorative like embroidery to painting.