morocco leather
Supple bookbinding material
Morocco leather is fine goatskin leather, originally from Morocco, tanned with sumac to produce a distinctive pebbled grain.
Prized for bookbinding, wallets, and luxury goods, it's supple yet durable: The antique volume was bound in red morocco leather.
Often shortened to simply morocco.
- smooth textureEven, frictionless surface quality
- bookbindingAssembling pages into volumes
- antique booksOld valuable printed works
- skivingEvading work or duty
- goatskinTanned caprine hide
fine grain · full grain · gilding · levant · upholstery · journals · stitching · burnishing · glossy finish · curing · dyeing · leather carving · vibrant colors · pebbled · durability · embossing · tanned · elegance
- leatherworkleather, tanning, carving, tanner, saddler
- bookbindingbookbinding, bookbinder, sewing, hand-bound, leather repair
- goatskin productskidskin
- Victorian booksfirst editions, triple-deckers, Victorian novels, penny dreadfuls, serialized fiction
- book tradebook dealers, bookselling, bookseller, publisher, bookshops
- book historybookbinding, colophon, edition, folio, frontispiece
leather type/quality
morocco leatherbonded leather
Fiber-blended imitation material
faux leather · imitation leather · leatherette · pleather · skiver