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Leather

The special characteristics of leather (flexibility, elasticity, durability and excellence) as regards its preparation and use have turned it into the essential material for many objects for personal use, decorative objects of great artistic value or for the equipment of animals used for transport, drawing or riding.

The wide range of the demand justifies the use of all kinds of leather as raw material, from mammals -calf, pig, peccary, boar, goat, etc.- to the skin of reptiles -crocodiles, serpents, lizards, etc.- for fantasy objects and skins from fish and birds. There is a great variety of specialities in working leather, depending on the techniques used and the objects produced.

The region of Ubrique (Cádiz) is the main Spanish Moroccan leather centre. Its production is concerned with small-sized articles (wallets, cases, bags, cigarette cases, purses, attach cases, etc.) Alicante, the Balearics, Málaga, Barcelona, Valencia and Prado del Rey (Cádiz) are other interesting production centres in this sense.