The production materials for leather armor were primarily animal hides, which, compared to the price and acquisition of iron, were indeed much easier to obtain.
But this was precisely what he currently lacked.
The pasture had just been built, just starting to enter into breeding production.
He did not have a large amount of leather to make leather armor.
Even if he bought a lot of cow and pig hides from merchants, he still needed to tan the leather before it could be used in the production of leather armor.
Lynn had considered chain armor.
But soon, Lynn rejected the idea.
To create chain armor, one needed to smelt the iron ore and forge it into small iron rings.
Moreover, it required a lot of manpower to weave each piece together.
Time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Lynn also considered padded armor.
Padded armor was made by stitching together numerous small armor plates with ropes or leather strips.
