Although this is not a large collection, in terms of the items' artistic quality and their cultural and historic documentation, it is nevertheless most valuable and interesting. This particular artistic form developed in Spain during the Middle Ages. Over the next few centuries, it reached a very high level of its products' technical and artistic quality. It later on spread to many countries all over Europe. We should point out the Arab's role in the matter and their significance for the spreading of this technique to the European continent, where they were at the same time its first masters. The volume of fragments and the entire items that survived testifies to the technique's wide use in our midst in the 16th and 17th c. It is well known that decorative leather was used for interior decoration in Dubrovnik of the 16th and 17th c., but, at the same time, this precious material could be found also in the Split's nobility mansions. In the 17th c., when decorative leather manufacturing was truly flourishing, its use was common in northern Croatia as well. There are data indicating that it was used for decorating nobility mansions' walls, manor-house chapels, while items made of gilt and painted leather were at the same time decorating both monasterial and village churches.