The full hide of an adult dewback, this trophy is approximately eight to nine square metres in surface area, and two point five centimetres thick. The tanning process has rendered the leather quite supple despite its thickness. Dewback skins are most often found in shades of green, with oranges, reds and tans being less common. Due to the thickness of the leather, dewback hides are seldom used to make personal items such as belts of bags – rather they are frequently used to make shelters, such as tents or yurts, where their durability and heat insulation properties. Although somewhat heavy, tents made from dewback skins can last for many years, sometimes being handed down through generations. Another common for dewback leather is as seat covers for home or vehicle seating for larger species such as Hutts, or those with rough, abrasive skin, for example Trandoshans or Sauvax.

Due to their heat insulating properties, dewback skins have also been used as the inner lining of ice-chests for thousands of years, predating modern refrigeration techniques by thousands of years. In one experiment carried out by the University of New Plympto, blocks of ice covered in sawdust and kept in a chest lined with cured debwack skins only lost five percent of their volume over a period of thirty days, which is comparable to the volume loss through sublimation when kept in a modern freezer.