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. In modern times, shagreen is produced from the skins of commercially-farmed Asian sting rays. The word derives from the French "chagrin" and is related to Italian "zigrino" and Venetian "sagrin", derived from the Turkic "sağrı" / "çağrı" 'rump of a horse' or the prepared skin of this part. The roughness of its texture led to the French meaning of anxiety, vexation, embarrassment, or annoyance. Shagreen has an unusually rough and granular surface, and is sometimes used
Lampshades made from human skin morality and the twisted inhumanity of his orders. In 1995, August Kreis III was ejected from the set of "The Jerry Springer Show" after telling the host "Your relatives – weren't they all turned into soap or lampshades?... I've got your mom in the trunk of my car". The song "Skinned" from the 1995 Blind Melon album "Soup" is about Ed Gein and contains the lyrics "I'll make a lampshade of durable skin." A human lampshade appears in Ken Russell's 2007 short satire "A Kitten for Hitler". In the film, Lenny, an American Jewish boy, who has a swastika-shaped birthmark,