Paul Wright, general Manager at William Cowley, Velum and parchment makers in Newport Pagnall, works on stretched calf skins to create Velum. (Tom Pilston) In the company’s original office, with its ...

Parliament in London has written its laws down on vellum parchment since it was first summoned in 1264. But that is all set to end on April 1, when it switches to parchment paper. What’s the ...

When you prepare formal documents and printed presentations for your business, you can select from a wide range of papers to give your work a distinctive appearance. If you've investigated parchment ...

While calfskin vellum was once considered the high-end writing material of choice for those in early publishing, new research suggests that medieval and early modern lawyers opted to use sheepskin ...

Valuable vellum Books and texts from this period were written on parchment, which is animal skin that has been carefully processed so it can be written on. In Iceland, only exclusive calfskin was used ...

Britain's best legal minds wrote on parchments made from sheepskin to prevent fraud for hundreds of years, a new study shows. From the 13th to 20th centuries, lawyers specifically favoured sheepskin, ...

The UK's law is on scrolls. In a tower After a reprieve, the UK is to continue printing and storing its laws on vellum, made from calf or goat-skin. But shouldn't these traditions give way to digital ...

Scientists at Cambridge University are working on a DNA technique to identify the date and origin of ancient manuscripts. Biochemist Christopher Howe and his colleagues are working on a method that ...