When was the first leather belt made and where?
Leather is made from the skins of animals. You can make leather out of the skin of any animal, but cows have the thickest skins to make the strongest leather. After the shepherd or the butcher killed the animal, he skinned the animal. Then a tanner (someone who makes leather) made the skin into leather. In some cultures it was mostly men who made leather. In other cultures it was mostly women. There were a lot of different ways of making leather. First you scraped all the flesh off the leather with a bone or stone scraper (later on, people might use metal knives). Then they would need to process the skin with some kind of chemical. Sometimes they used salt. A lot of people used urine (you know, pee!). Tanners (people who made leather) would go around and collect urine from public toilets and from peoples’ houses and take it back to their store in jars. They would let the urine stand around in the jars for a week or so until it turned into ammonia, and then they would pour the ammonia o
