parchment
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Parchment is a writing material made from animal skin, typically goatskin, that has been stretched and prepared for use. It was an important medium for writing and preserving documents and texts before paper became widely available.
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- Parchment and vellum
- History <span class="anchor" id="Etymology and origin"></span>
- Modern use
- Manufacture
- Skinning, soaking, and dehairing
- Stretching
- Treatments
- Reuse
- Jewish parchment
- Additional uses of the term
- Plant-based parchment
- Parchment craft
- Technical analysis <span class="anchor" id="DNA testing"></span>
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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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 in West Asia and Europe for more than two millennia. By 400 AD many of the written works intended for preservation in these regions had been transferred from papyrus to parchment. Vellum is a type of fine-quality parchment made from the skins of young animals such as lambs and young calves.