Knowledge of leatherworking extends to lore concerning animal hides and their properties. It also confers knowledge of leather armor and similar goods.

Components

Components. Leatherworker's tools include a knife, a small mallet, an edger, a hole punch, thread, and leather scraps.

Ability Checks

Arcana. Your expertise in working with leather grants you added insight when you inspect magic items crafted from leather, such as boots and some cloaks.

Investigation. You gain added insight when studying leather items or clues related to them, as you draw on your knowledge of leather to pick out details that others would overlook.

Actions and Activities

Identify Hides. When looking at a hide or a leather item, you can determine the source of the leather and any special techniques used to treat it. For example, you can spot the difference between leather crafted using dwarven methods and leather crafted using halfling methods.

Skin. With a flask of oil and a set of leatherworker's tools, a creature can take the Harvest action for 1 hour and remove the skin or pelt of a beast that is no larger than Large, without requiring an ability check for the action.

Leatherworker's Tools

Activity DC
Modify a leather item's appearance 10
Determine a leather item's history 20

LEATHERART

You provide 1 pound of leather and make a Dexterity (Leathercraft Kit) check to attempt to produce a piece of leather with the features of the area. If you have proficiency with the tool and in the Sleight of Hand skill, you have advantage on the check.