01-01-2007, 08:40 PM
But Matt, the usual paper-like parchment involves scraping, degreasing, and preparing for writing on. Did they go really through all that effort and bother for a shield layer? :wink: :wink:
Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin, sheep skin or goat skin. According to the Roman historian Varro, Pliny records, it was invented about the beginning of the 2nd century BC, in Pergamon, Asia Minor, as a substitute for papyrus. In the Middle Ages European parchment in turn was largely replaced by paper, a Chinese invention that was being manufactured in Moorish Andalusia in the 11th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment
Check out this page as well:
[url:iht13xvx]http://www.kb.nl/cons/leather/chapter1-en.html[/url]
Manufacture
The definition of parchment used in this publication and taken from Kneep en Binding, states that it is a skin treated with lime water and dried while stretched.
No mention of it being thin there, only that it needs to be treated with lime water and dried while stretched.
Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin, sheep skin or goat skin. According to the Roman historian Varro, Pliny records, it was invented about the beginning of the 2nd century BC, in Pergamon, Asia Minor, as a substitute for papyrus. In the Middle Ages European parchment in turn was largely replaced by paper, a Chinese invention that was being manufactured in Moorish Andalusia in the 11th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment
Check out this page as well:
[url:iht13xvx]http://www.kb.nl/cons/leather/chapter1-en.html[/url]
Manufacture
The definition of parchment used in this publication and taken from Kneep en Binding, states that it is a skin treated with lime water and dried while stretched.
No mention of it being thin there, only that it needs to be treated with lime water and dried while stretched.
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