Morocco leather

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Made from goatskin,^[1][2] morocco leather is dyed red on the grain side and then tanned by hand to bring up the grain in a bird's-eye pattern.

French morocco is an imitation made of sheepskin.^[3]

[edit] 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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