Leather vs. Fabric — What's the Difference?

Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators.Leather can be used to make a variety of items, including clothing, footwear, handbags, furniture, tools and sports equipment, and lasts for decades.

A cloth produced especially by knitting, weaving, or felting fibers.

A material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process

The texture or quality of such cloth.

A piece of leather as a polishing cloth.

A complex underlying structure

Short for stirrup leather

A method or style of construction.

Beat or thrash (someone)

A structural material, such as masonry or timber.

The dressed or tanned hide of an animal.

A physical structure; a building.

Any of various articles or parts made of dressed or tanned hide, such as a boot or strap.

An edifice or building.

The flap of a dog's ear.

(archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

To cover wholly or in part with the dressed or tanned hide of an animal.

(archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

(Informal) To beat with a strap made of hide.

The physical material of a building.

Made of, relating to, or resembling dressed or tanned animal hide.

The framework underlying a structure.

(Slang) Of or relating to the wearing of leather, or patronized by people who wear leather, especially as a sexual fetish

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.

The texture of a cloth.

A piece of the above used for polishing.

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.

(colloquial) A cricket ball or football.

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

(plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.

(transitive) To cover with fabric.

(baseball) A good defensive play

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

(boxing) A punch.

That which is fabricated

The skin.

Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, whether vegetable, animal, or synthetic; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics; made of a fabric that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester.

Made of leather.

The act of constructing; construction.

Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

(transitive) To cover with leather.

To frame; to build; to construct.

(transitive) To strike forcefully.

Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;

(transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.

The underlying structure;

The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

The skin.

To beat, as with a thong of leather.

Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.

An animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning