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Making parchment in the Medieval period (infosec.pub)
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[–] samburwell96@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like vellum is either calfskin, or just of higher quality. I think I've heard vellum used to describe high quality copy paper. Either way, fun things to learn!