Shagreen ::
Shagreen (n.) A kind of
untanned leather prepared in
Russia and the East, from the skins of
horses, asses, and
camels, and
grained so as to be
covered with small round
granulations. This
characteristic surface is
produced by
pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when
moist, and
afterward, when dry,
scraping off the
roughness left
between them, and then, by
soaking, causing the
portions of the skin which had been
compressed or
indented by the seeds to swell up into
relief. It is used f