Tanner

Release date	23 June 2001 (Update)
Race	Human
Members NPC?	No
Quest NPC?	No
Location	Al Kharid, Varrock
Sells items?	Yes
Gender	Male
Examine	He has a certain bovine aroma.
Notable features	Tans multiple kinds of leathers

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A Tanner is a non-player character who for a price will tan hides into leather:

• Cowhide, which becomes Leather.
• Snake hide, which becomes Snakeskin.
• Green, blue, red, and black Dragonhide, which becomes Dragon leather of the same colour.

Players cannot tan hides themselves, unless they have access to the Make Leather spell, so tanners are very useful for players wishing to use the Crafting skill to make Ranged armour. While certain types of leather require a minimum crafting level to craft them, there is no minimum crafting level to use a tanner to tan the hides.

Tanners can be found in the following locations, marked with the tanning icon ():

• Ellis in Al Kharid. Both the Ring of duelling and the Amulet of glory can be used to teleport to Al Kharid, and Ellis is near a bank.
• The first floor of the Crafting Guild.
• South-west Varrock, south of the western Varrock bank, west of the Apothecary.
• Ranging Guild (members only).
• Sbott in Canifis (members only). Sbott charges higher prices for tanning, a bit over twice what other tanners charge. Sbott is near both the CKS Fairy ring and a bank.
• Jack Oval, the crafting tutor south of Burthorpe and north of Taverley. He is near a bank chest.

Similar to tanning hides into leather, Yak-hide can be cured into Cured yak-hide, which is used to craft Yak-hide armour. Thakkrad Sigmundson on Neitiznot (members only) can cure yak-hide but cannot tan other hides. Other tanners cannot cure yak-hide.

After a recent update tanning soft leather with Ellis is now free, but when spoken to without leather, he says "I make leather from animal hides. Bring me some cowhides and one gold coin per hide, and I'll tan them into soft leather for you." This is most probably something Jagex missed while updating their servers and it is unknown if it will be fixed.

Raw material		Product		Crafting level	Tanning price
					Standard	Canifis
	Cowhide		Leather	1	0	2
	Cowhide		Hard leather	28	3	5
	Snake hide (Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup)		Snakeskin	45	15	25
	Snake hide (Temple Trekking)		Snakeskin	45	20	45
	Green dragonhide		Green dragon leather	57	20	45
	Blue dragonhide		Blue dragon leather	66	20	45
	Red dragonhide		Red dragon leather	73	20	45
	Black dragonhide		Black dragon leather	79	20	45
	Royal dragonhide		Royal dragon leather	87	20	45

See alsoEdit

• Crafting
• Leather armour
• Snakeskin armour
• Dragonhide armour