This Profession allows players to work various leathers and pelts into leather armors as well as patches integral to the creation of higher-level, metallic armors and enhanced weapons. Leatherworkers are responsible for creating leather items for leather wearing classes: Druid, Hunter, Shaman, and Rogue. At high levels leatherworkers can create specialized gear useful to high level players.

You should already be a skinner since you will need hides and leather to create your items. It is possible to be a leatherworker without being a skinner if you buy or are given the required ingredients by other players but is not recommended.

Leatherworkers do not require any special equipment to create their items such as blacksmiths require anvils. Leatherworkers can create wherever they want as long as they have the proper required ingredients.

The main staple for leatherworkers is obviously leather as well as hides. These are found by skinning animals. You will likely not get enough leather and hides on your own so you are encouraged to buy leather and hides as well as have your friends collect them for you. Recipes also require various other ingredients such as dyes and thread purchased from a Profession merchant. You might also need rare gems which are found from monster drops, treasure chests, mining, fishing, and Rogue pick pocketing.

• Leather patches' effects do not stack. They will overwrite each other when applied. You can only have one patch on an item at a time.
• Enchants/Imbues and armor patches do not stack. They will overwrite each other.
• At high levels, players have the ability to specialize as a Dragonscale Leatherworker, Elemental Leatherworker, or Tribal Leatherworker. These specialists can create very powerful and valuable items.
• There is a recipe at leatherworking trainers that allows Thick Leather to be turned into Rugged Leather.
• Leatherworkers can make throwing balls (as a toy).
• There is Silithid armor that can be made by leatherworkers. The recipes require Cenarion Circle faction to learn.