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  2. Parchment - Wikipedia

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    Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia.

  3. Vellum - Wikipedia

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    [11] Writing in 1936, Lee Ustick explained that: To-day the distinction, among collectors of manuscripts, is that vellum is a highly refined form of skin, parchment a cruder form, usually thick, harsh, less highly polished than vellum, but with no distinction between skin of calf, or sheep, or of goat. [12]

  4. Wax tablet - Wikipedia

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    Wax tablet and a Roman stylus. A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych.It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.

  5. Writing material - Wikipedia

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    Writing seems to have become more widespread with the invention of papyrus in Egypt. Parchment, using sheepskins left after the wool was removed for cloth, was sometimes cheaper than papyrus, which had to be imported from outside of Egypt. To save money on expensive papyrus, Egyptians would wash off and reuse it.

  6. History of paper - Wikipedia

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    This plant-puree conglomerate produced by pulp mills and paper mills was used for writing, drawing, and money. During the 8th century, Chinese paper making spread to the Islamic world, replacing papyrus. By the 11th century, papermaking was brought to Europe, where it replaced animal-skin-based parchment and wood panels.

  7. Notebook - Wikipedia

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    The earliest form of notebook was the wax tablet, which was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in classical antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. [1] As paper became more readily available in European countries from the 11th century onwards, wax tablets gradually fell out of use, although they remained relatively common in England, which did not possess a commercially ...

  8. Palimpsest - Wikipedia

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    A Georgian palimpsest from the 5th or 6th century. The word palimpsest derives from Latin palimpsestus, which derives from παλίμψηστος, palímpsēstos [4] (from Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin) 'again' and ψάω (psáō) 'scrape'), a compound word that describes the process: "The original writing was scraped and washed off, the surface resmoothed, and the new literary material ...

  9. Parchment craft - Wikipedia

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    Coloring is a technique that gained popularity in parchment craft in the 20th century; before this, parchment craft was originally only white work. [3] There are many methods for coloring parchment craft work. One of the most popular is "dorsing". Dorsing creates a soft background color for embossed shapes or the areas around them.