How are leather boots made?

There are a lot of steps in making a leather jacket from animal hide. After skinning the animal, the hide must be cleaned and dehaired in a process called liming, which is soaking the skin in a lime/water solution. Then the hide is "fleshed" which is to remove a thin layer of "flesh" from the underside to remove all fat and excess hair that liming didn't remove. At this point the hide is called "rawhide." Now the rawhide basically fleshed again except this time it's to bring the rawhide to a predetermined thickness for the end-product in a process called splitting. Once split, the rawhide can be tanned. Tanning preserves the rawhide and increases it's durability. There are many ways of tanning but the traditional method is to soak the hide in tannins. Once the tanning process is complete, the rawhide can be called leather. Now they trim off any unusable parts of the leather, like broken edges and basically fleshed again but to bring it back to the thickness from the second fleshing since the added moisture from tanning thickened the leather. Now the leather is dyed (Optional), dried, softened via tumbling, known as "milling" and/or softened via pretty much tenderizing like a cut of beef, buffed, then imprinted with that classic leather texture via a large press. Now the leather can be sent off to be sewn into a jacket or sold in a leather store. I skipped over some smaller (Yet equally important) steps, like the initial cleaning process, quality control, sammiering (Removing excess moisture right after tanning), etc.