shagreen
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right|thumb|An antique round box covered with pearl ray shagreen, ground down to produce a smooth, puzzle-like surface
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “shagreen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.