SC - medieval times?
Cindy M. Renfrow
cindy at thousandeggs.com
Mon Jun 26 04:44:47 PDT 2000
Balthazar writes:
> Actually, parchment is animal hide as well. The difference between vellum
> and parchment is merely a matter of which animal they came from (vellum, I
> believe, is sheep skin, and parchment is calf skin. Or, it could be the
> other way around.) I have a very nice sample of actual parchment sitting
on
> my desk in front of me. It is in it's raw state (unburnished, unscraped),
> and just waiting for me to tackle it. Modern parchment is paper...but the
> real stuff was hide.
The funny thing is that nowadays I found sorta real parchment - in a very
nice 'art' store in NYC - I think it was Lees. They told me it was made
from elephant? All I can say is that I used it for calligraphy practice and
was able to scrape the lettering and everything else from the sheet with an
exacto with no problems. I may remember more when my brain starts to
function later on this morning.
Diana d'Avignon
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