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1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding xx. 88 Should the leather be ‘straight grain’, it must only be creased in the one direction of the grain.

1892 W. L. Andrews Roger Payne 16 The materials used by Roger Payne as coverings for his bindings were almost without exception either straight-grained morocco or russian leather.

1929 C. J. H. Davenport Roger Payne ii. 44 He [sc. Roger Payne] found that if a piece of morocco was slightly damped, and then vigorously rolled on itself by hand, that all its original markings became much more apparent. This leather when dry was found to have acquired a permanent surface configuration like a series of small, more or less parallel, wavy lines, which is now known as ‘straight grain’, largely found, for the first time, on many of Payne's finest bindings.

1956 H. M. Nixon Broxbourne Library Styles & Designs Bookbindings 193/1 Material: Red straight-grained morocco, over pasteboards.

1963 B. C. Middleton Hist. Eng. Craft Bookbinding Technique xi. 122 In the 30s and 40s of the nineteenth century hard- and paste-grain morocco replaced straight-grain morocco and russia for use on fine bindings.