Morocco leather

Morocco leather
Book bound in a mustard-yellow morocco.

Morocco leather (also morocco or the French maroquin) is a leather made from goatskin,[1][2] dyed red (traditionally using Sumac) on the grain side and then tanned by hand to bring up the grain in a bird's-eye pattern.

Originally Morocco leather was imported from Morocco, and was used from the late sixteenth century in the binding of luxury, where it was appreciated for its strength and because it showed off the gilding.

French Morocco is an imitation made of sheepskin.[3] It is also known as saffian.

References

  1. ^ Morocco leather
  2. ^ http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt2275.html
  3. ^ http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0834070.html

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