How To Create Pebble Texture?

[mishkin]

Hello,

I'm very new to working with leather. I've been trying to figure out how to create a pebble texture on smooth leather. I found some pebble background stamping tools, but they provide fairly fine grain. I'm looking for something more coarse. Something like this:

The reason I want to create such texture rather than use pebble leather to begin with is that I want to have this texture only on part of a single piece and not on the whole.

Thank you very much in advance for all your help and advice.

[rmr]

That looks like bison hide to me- which naturally comes with a pebble grain

[mishkin]

Thanks. Is there a way to smooth out bison hide to have smooth texture? I only need it on a a portion of a piece. So in that bag, for example, only half of the front will be pebbled, and the other half is smooth.

[mlapaglia]

Ive gotten pebble texture with a poly cutting board that had a rough finish and a mallet. I case the leather, place it grain side down on the cutting board and go over it with themallet. Makes a nice texture. Check out a picture and the original post here.