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Vellum is a high grade parchment.  Both are made from untanned animal skins
which have soaked, scraped, stretched and smoothed with an abrasive such as
pumice.

The terms are also used for papers which have been made to look like the
originals.

Bear

> Are you sure that you mean parchment?  It would be
> very difficult to abrade paper.  Or do you really mean
> vellum?  Most of the manuscripts that I know about
> were written on vellum, which is kid skin, or lamb
> skin or calf skin and much easier to abrade.
> 
> Huette
>