Color Names

Shagreen

Untanned sharkskin leather, pale and rough as a just-landed fish belly.

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Shagreen is a pale beige.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and pastel.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Shagreen

Shagreen

Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, historically from a horse's or onager's back, or from shark or ray.

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shagreen

Noun

  1. An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray.
  2. A rough or spiny surface of an insect's cuticle.

Verb

  1. To give a texture resembling shagreen leather.
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