28-10-2025, 07:42 PM
(28-10-2025, 02:48 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Production of parchment in the Middle Ages according to descriptions in various books. 1100-1500. It is not split, it just looks that way.
Yeah, I have seen several videos of parchment making at companies that supply restorators and such and use traditional methods. They just don't say that split parchment is not a thing; they just don't mention it.
BUT it would seem that sheep and deer skins are too thin for splitting anyway.
BUT there are those Medieval Jewish sources that seem to speak about split vellum as a commonplace thing and give names for unsplit vellum and for each of the two layers of split vellum.
So I am still in doubt...
All the best,--stolfi