How parchment is made - Domesday - BBC Two 

@Grim PeeperIn In the Nordic countries more common people probably wrote runes on wood. A couple of years ago they discovered an isolated place in Sweden where this was in use until a couple of hundred years ago.

Exactly what I thought 😂

A doctor who- episodes with lady that was stretched and preserved through time.

Probably through leather tanning. Maybe someone made a mistake with the tanning acids once that turned out well and created a thin sheet instead of a piece of leather.

my theory for these types of things is that most often they are discovered entirely by accident.

@@FriskTheFallen or maybe alien teach em

@@SalmonBucket ayy lmao

What happens when animal skin dries is a matter of discovery

That's how it works friend, thanks for stating this so others don't have to!

If someone told you that they were going to kill you and used every part of you for goods, would that make you feel better about being murdered?

There is virtually NO waste in the meat products process.

"Nearly every gram of that cow is turned into something useful and sold. Basically the only waste that comes out of a well-run processing plant is dirty water. (And some chicken plants even sterilize that water and then use it to water the fields where grain is grown for chicken feed). Skins become leather. Bones become bone meal, or stock for calcium and phosphorus production, or a dozen other uses. Fats become lard, and also different types of chemical stock you'd never think about. Hooves and connective tissue become gelatin. Edible parts that can't be sold as beef are processed to become pet foods or protein additives." --Andrew Kiener

That is from a calf. That thing hardly gotten a chance to live!

thats whats blowin my mind as well

It is actually the opposite, our paper was supposed to emulate parchment.

Teixeira Da Silva yea I always found that ironic

@Samuel Davidson GTFO soyboy

Rebecca K me, too!

Lucky Kitty no this is the old fashioned way of making parchment they have other processes now

Also, we call the letter what confirms your family is noble "dog leather", probably the best quality parchment made out of dog skin in medieval Europe

It’s pretty interesting my husband told me that was made out of skins and animals and I was like what I kept imagining my mind that was papyrus like the ancient Egyptian‘s used was just made from the plants

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Yes, you can, but I guess printers do not know how to handle it. Parchment has also been used as printing medium, but it was so much cheaper to print stuff on paper instead of parchment.

I made some parchment from sheep, I think you either overdone it or it had too much fat, because the same thing happened to me with old sheep, but lamb skins came out nicely...

I have a question! Did you leave the skin in salt as they showed in the beginning? I'm thinking of getting one or two skins, but because they are few I don't know if it's necessary

@@elaenia Quick Lime, my friend. Limestone made into quicklime, using a Kiln, heat the limestone in a kiln and crush it up, add water. If you leave the water standing on top of it, the putty wont dry out...you can then mix it if you want even making mortar for your house.

If you want to know, they could scrape away the mistake with a little knife! Pretty cool.

Good quality vellum was worth enough that some people would scrape off the letters and resell it.

bark was used to write on, indeed, but parchment is from skins...there are plenty of materials people used to write on...

Me. This one is better

Torah scrolls are scribed on this type of parchment.

HE said it takes a day to dry...I would say next day.

Once it's dried I expect it can be written on until it gets moist and rots. So years and years.

it was paper that was made from scraps of linen and silk before they realized they can cut down trees and make it from them...

Me too... I would like a piece done in the original way. Google his name.

Can't remember the company, but there is a single one company making parchment in the UK, pretty sure you can google it.

Try William Cowley Parchment and Vellum Makers

It wasn't the time it took, it was church's control over knowledge.

@@elaenia Sunday school was originally created by protestants to teach people to read, so they could read the Bible themselves.

@@dennismitchell5276 Cool! So, it still wasn't parchment's fault :) And being able to read the bible, although it was important, does not say less about church's control over knowledge, over what could be written and what could not.

So is birth. But babies are beautiful!!!

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for who saying it's unnecessary, we eat cows meat so why should we waste their skin.

+extrasagrada Bullshit! Why waste anything?

it's also made with baby sheeps and goats...but realize no one eats old animals, we eat young animals, so the skins would be wasted after meat is consumed...those animals don't die for parchment, they die for meat and the parchment is just a by product...I made parchment from sheep skins I got for free, because people I got them from sell the meat and then they used to burn all the skins...why such a waste? by making parchment from skins of dead animals you can save a tree or two instead of throwing them away and continue cutting trees for paper... realize that the calf would have ended up dead anyway...

Unless you live in the Wizarding World, because for some reason technology past 1850 is frowned upon.

Jana Srnková also parchment lasts. We have books from like 1300s in perfect condition. Paper doesn’t last that well that long! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎😎