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SHAGREEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHAGREEN , a See also:

species of untanned See also:leather with a roughened, granular See also:surface. The word is the See also:English See also:form; cf. Ger. Schagrin, of Fr. chagrin, Ital. zagrin, zigrino; these are usually referred to See also:Turkish and See also:Persian saghri, lit. the back of a See also:horse, and so applied to leather made from this See also:part. The skin of the See also:wild See also:ass was especially used. The method of preparing the skins to secure the rough, granular surface is as follows. The seeds of a plant, usually some species of Chino See also:podium, are embedded in the skin while soft, the surface is then shaved down and soaked in See also:water, when the edges of the indentations swell up. The leather is then dyed, See also:green being a favourite See also:colour. Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays; the placoid scales of the See also:shark skin giving the necessary roughened surface. Shagreen is used as an ornamental leather for making See also:pocket-books, small cases and the like, and for the handles of swords, daggers, &c.

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