I've used animal print tissue paper for decorative backing on selfbows and wood backed bows. I got it from an art supply catalog(Dick Blick I think). It comes in tiger and zebra stripes, leopard, giraffe and others. One problem is getting the thin, delicate tissue paper to lay flat. If you try to rearrange it once it has glue on it it tears. If I can recover some pics I'll post them.