Writing media

thumb|220px|Papyrus (P. British Museum|BM EA 10591 [[recto column IX, beginning of lines 13–17)]]

right|thumb|Central European (Northern) type of finished parchment made of goatskin (material)|goatskin stretched on a wooden frame thumb|Parchment with a quill and ink

A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, better known as chalk.

thumb|350px|The Joshua Roll, [[Vatican Library. An illuminated scroll, probably of the 10th century, created in the Byzantine empire.]] right|thumb|Scroll of the Book of Esther, [[Seville, Spain]] right|thumb|Ingredients used in making ink for Hebrew scrolls today A scroll (from the Old French escroe or escroue), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.

thumb|350px|The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.

writing medium

[[Image:AGMA Ostrakon Cimon.jpg|right|thumb|Ostrakon inscribed with "Kimon [son] of Miltiades", for Cimon, an Athenian statesman.]] thumb|Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣ), 487 BC. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the [[Stoa of Attalus]] right|thumb|Ancient Greek ostraca voting for the ostracism|ostracization of [[Themistocles in 472/471 BC.]]

thumb|right|400px| Magna Carta, written in Latin on vellum, held at the [[British Library]] thumb|right|267px|A vellum deed dated 1638, with pendent seal attached

thumb|Researcher writing on a whiteboard thumb|Whiteboard with marker and eraser A whiteboard (also known as marker board, dry-erase board, dry-wipe board, and pen-board) is a glossy, usually white surface for making non-permanent markings. Whiteboards are analogous to blackboards, but with a smoother surface allowing for rapid marking and erasing of markings on their surface. The popularity of whiteboards increased rapidly in the mid-1990s and they have become a fixture in many offices, meeting rooms, school classrooms, public events and other work environments.

bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula

species of plant

pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron used for pyromancy in ancient China

two or more tablets of wood, filled with wax, for writing upon

thin piece of flat material used as a medium for writing

leaf of the banana plant

East Asian ceremonial sceptre

writing medium in ancient China

thumb|Skywriting over Oshkosh, Wisconsin during EAA's Airventure in 2008. Skywriting is the process of using one or more small aircraft, able to expel special smoke during flight, to fly in certain patterns that create writing readable from the ground. These messages can be advertisements, general messages of celebration or goodwill, personal messages such as a marriage proposals and birthday wishes, or acts of protest.

surface on which text or images can be drawn

thumb|Replicas of mokkan are wooden tablets found at Japanese archaeological sites. Most of the tablets date from the mid-7th to mid-8th century, but some are as late as the early modern period. They have been found in sites across Japan, but mostly around the old capitals of Nara and Fujiwara. They were used for informal purposes, such as shipping tags, memoranda, and simple messages, and thus complement official records transmitted on paper.

table using constrained sand for modelling or educational purposes

board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts and other public notices were inscribed in black in ancient Rome