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 for covering small cases and boxes.
The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.
Made or covered with the leather called shagreen.
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.
From Turkish "saghri" and means the croup of a beast. Originally made in Persia from hides of asses, horses and camel, probably untanned. Seeds of a species of Chenopodium were trampled into the skin when it was moist and shaken out when it dried, thus leaving granular indentations. The material was then stained. In the 17th cent and later, shagreen was made either of finely granulated shark skin or of the skin of a ray fish, whose pearl like papillae were ground flat, leaving a lovely pattern.
Skin of shark or ray fish, often used on sword grips and scabbards
This is either Stingray or Shark skin, though we tend to use the former. It is a very resistant leather, and requires great skill and craftsmanship to be worked correctly.
n. the rough hide of a shark or ray (Family Dasyatidae) covered with numerous bony denticles. Shagreen named after a Parisian leather craftsman at the 18th century French court, Jean-Claude Galuchat. He began to fashion sting-ray for Louis XV and members of his court, applying it to objects that had never before been made – toilette items, perfume flacons, sewing and snuffboxes, wig-cases and the like, and in the way that brought out its inherent beauty and mystery.
Untanned shark hide used as sandpaper for sanding and polishing furniture.
Shagreen is a type of roughened untanned leather, formerly made from a horse's back, or that of an onager (wild ass), and typically dyed green. Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The word derives from the French chagrin (anxiety, annoyance – a reference to the rasping surface of the leather) which in turn is said to have developed from the Turkishhttp://www.answers.com/topic/shagreen Answers.com - Definition of Shagreenhttp://www.m-w.com/dictionary/shagreen Shagreen in Merriam-Webster Online saÄŸrı, literally, the back of a horse.