Cured leather is a crafting component in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that can be dismantled into leather scraps and is needed to craft many items.
Crafting Requirements 
It can be found as both random and guaranteed loot, randomly dropped by panthers, or purchased from the following merchants:
- All armorers and blacksmiths
- Armors and weapons merchants in Nilfgaardian Army Group 'Center' Camp
- Merchant in the boatyard south of Refugees' Camp
- Merchant at Calveit Watchtower
- Merchant at Coast of Wrecks
- Merchant in the Fish Market in Novigrad
- Merchant in Putrid Grove
- Merchant in Ursten
- Merchant by the road west of White Eagle Fort
- Scoia'tael merchant in the forest south of Novigrad
- Scoia'tael merchant in the forest east of Oxenfurt
- Merchant in Fayrlund
- Merchant at the sawmill northeast of Rannvaig
- Merchant at the Isolated Hut on Hindarsfjall
- Merchant in Mohrin Village
- Merchant in Stacheier
- Clerk in Villa Vedette
- Merchant outside the The Cockatrice Inn
- Merchant in Dupont & Sons
- Merchant in Flovive
- Merchant in Francollarts
- Merchant in The Clever Clogs Tavern
- Merchant in the Wine Market in San Sebastian
- Wandering merchants in Toussaint
- Wine Merchant at Rivecalme Storehouse
Cured leather can also be obtained by dismantling many items, including most animal hides, boots, gauntlets and trousers. The full list of items is way too long, but here are all lootable non-relic items from the base game:
- Assault gauntlets
- Axeman's boots
- Axeman's gauntlets
- Bounty hunter's gambeson
- Campaigner's boots
- Captain's boots
- Cavalry boots
- Cavalry gauntlets
- Deer hide
- Eternal Fire executioner's armor
- Goat hide
- Hardened leather
- Hunting gauntlets
- Kaedweni gambeson
- Knight's gauntlets
- Mag Deira cuirass
- Old bear hide
- Pig hide
- Spikeroog aketon
- Swordsman's boots
- Tracker's boots
- Tracker's gauntlets
- Trapper's boots
- Verden archer's gambeson
- White wolf hide
- Witch hunter's armor
- Wolf hide
Needed to craft[]
Witcher gear:
- Feline gauntlets
- Enhanced Feline gauntlets
- Legendary Feline gauntlets
- Enhanced legendary Feline gauntlets
- Feline trousers
- Enhanced Feline trousers
- Legendary Feline trousers
- Enhanced legendary Feline trousers
- Feline silver sword - mastercrafted
- Legendary Feline silver sword - mastercrafted
- Grandmaster legendary Feline silver sword
- Superior Griffin gauntlets
- Mastercrafted Griffin gauntlets
- Superior legendary Griffin gauntlets
- Mastercrafted legendary Griffin gauntlets
- Griffin trousers
- Enhanced Griffin trousers
- Legendary Griffin trousers
- Enhanced legendary Griffin trousers
- Ursine gauntlets
- Enhanced Ursine gauntlets
- Legendary Ursine gauntlets
- Enhanced legendary Ursine gauntlets
- Ursine trousers
- Enhanced Ursine trousers
- Legendary Ursine trousers
- Enhanced legendary Ursine trousers
- Legendary Viper venomous silver sword
- Warrior's leather jacket
- Superior Wolven gauntlets
- Mastercrafted Wolven gauntlets
- Superior legendary Wolven gauntlets
- Mastercrafted legendary Wolven gauntlets
- Wolven trousers
- Enhanced Wolven trousers
- Legendary Wolven trousers
- Enhanced legendary Wolven trousers
Other items:
- Alder Folk boots
- Assassin's boots
- Assassin's trousers
- Assault gauntlets
- Axeman's boots
- Axeman's gauntlets
- Bounty hunter's gambeson
- Cavalry boots
- Cavalry gauntlets
- Cidarian gambeson
- Dwarven blade
- Gnomish Gwyhyr
- Hardened leather
- Hunting gauntlets
- Kaedweni gambeson
- Knight's gauntlets
- Mag Deira cuirass
- Mahakaman steel sword
- Mountain Folk boots
- Negotiator
- Nilfgaardian guardsman's gauntlets
- Skellige gambeson
- Skellige longsword
- Spikeroog aketon
- Steiger
- The Tamer
- Tir Tochair blade
- Tor'haerne (crafted relic)
- Tracker's boots
- Tracker's gauntlets
- Verden archer's gambeson
- Weeper
- Ofieri gauntlets (regular game only)
- Ofieri scale armor (regular game only)
- Ofieri sharovary (regular game only)
- Order of the Flaming Rose armor
- Sarrim
- Toussaint Color Guardsman's armor
- Toussaint Color Guardsman's boots
- Toussaint Color Guardsman's gauntlets
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Captain's armor
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Captain's boots
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Captain's gauntlets
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Officer's armor
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Officer's boots
- Toussaint Ducal Guard Officer's gauntlets
- Toussaint Ducal Guardsman's armor
- Toussaint Ducal Guardsman's boots
- Toussaint Ducal Guardsman's gauntlets