Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. animal material
8. processed animal material
9. leather
10. [leather by process]
11. vegetable-tanned leather
12. vegetable-tanned goatskin

Narrower term/s

• hard grain morocco
• levant[+]
  • cape levant
• crushed morocco

Anotations

Scope note:

Fine, very firm, flexible hand-grained leather prepared from goatskin tanned with sumac, having a distinctive pebbly grain and used especially in bookbinding, shoemaking, and upholstery. Also may refer to any vegetable-tanned goatskin leather. The leather was thought to have been first developed in Morocco, for which it is named.