@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.
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.
Seriously, unless you are a complete vegetarian, this should not offend. What should affend you is that as meat eaters or cheese eaters, that so much of an animal goes to waste un-used. At least here the skins are probably harvested from animals already butchered for their meat to feed us. Now these skins at least are not going to waste.
"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
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
It's just a misunderstanding. Today, parchment paper is a food-safe coated paper used in baking and cooking. It's not the same thing shown in this video. The Declaration of Independence was written on parchment, like what is shown in this video.
Wow you have to imagine that people back then were just constantly experimenting to see what would work and what wouldn’t with materials to come up with these products and the processes used to create them. I had no idea parchment was made from animal skin. I figured it was just a less refined paper.
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.
Can I put parchment in my laser printer? Actually, that would be a travesty, wouldn't it? Parchment is meant for that which will be hand-written and hand-painted.
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.
Now consider.. Ever been to the National Archives in Washington DC? at the end there.. that's what the Declaration of Independence and all the rest of those documents.. would have looked like at the signing..
What do they use this for?? How do they use it? it is still used for cooking? Does it not burn? I do know most parchment paper is made from eucalyptus. I believe that is what they are selling in stores mostly.
@@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.
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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...
Now THAT is vellum. Absolutely beautiful quality. Some of these vids on TH-cam show how to make drumskins, not parchment
When you watch this it makes you appreciate why books were so expensive back then.
@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.
"Moisturize me." 3:20
Exactly what I thought 😂
A doctor who- episodes with lady that was stretched and preserved through time.
How cool. It's amazing how people thought of these processes. How would one be able to imagine making parchment using this process? Fascinating.
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
Amazing how it went from rough and hairy animal skin, to resembling paper made from wood pulp.
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
When they rub the parchment with their hands I can hear the weasel from looney toons for some reason.
An amazing process! I had no idea how parchment was made. Thank you for your video.
Seriously, unless you are a complete vegetarian, this should not offend. What should affend you is that as meat eaters or cheese eaters, that so much of an animal goes to waste un-used. At least here the skins are probably harvested from animals already butchered for their meat to feed us. Now these skins at least are not going to waste.
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!
Something really satisfying about that process.
Peta cant complain since they werent there at that time
@Samuel Davidson GTFO soyboy
so strange. i had never realized parchment was made from animal skins...i thought it was nearly just like paper...apparently not!
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
Whoops, I always thought parchment was paper.
It's just a misunderstanding. Today, parchment paper is a food-safe coated paper used in baking and cooking. It's not the same thing shown in this video. The Declaration of Independence was written on parchment, like what is shown in this video.
Wow you have to imagine that people back then were just constantly experimenting to see what would work and what wouldn’t with materials to come up with these products and the processes used to create them. I had no idea parchment was made from animal skin. I figured it was just a less refined paper.
its a good information for me because now im studying how to made a parchment..
is there more on how whole process done like from sanding and or dusting and so on i like to see more
I did this but with a deer hide and it came out transparent and only a few white-ish parts. Does anyone know what got rid of the pigmentation?
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.
this could be like for a trampoline it looks a loot of FUN!!!
Brilliant video! and as well as the calfskin vellum, he does sheepskin parchment, and Kelmscott vellum, and goat too ...
very informative for a short video. Thanks a lot
Very informative. People should not confuse this with parchment paper commonly used for baking today. It's something totally different.
What does it smell like?
Wow! Now I wonder how they handled typos back then. Leonardo Da Vinci is like "has anyone seen my *white-out* ?"
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.
Incredible, who knew.
I always write on calf skin. It lasts for centuries. 🤯
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Fascinating Thank you
Can I put parchment in my laser printer? Actually, that would be a travesty, wouldn't it? Parchment is meant for that which will be hand-written and hand-painted.
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.
What a process
God save the paper sheet!
how can I remove the leathe hairs with chemical as a first prosse? I just need remove the leathe hairs. you can tells me more information ? thank you
Came here because of Myne-chan (ascendance of the bookworm).
Now dr who makes sense!
Can any one answer this???."once the parchment is prepared ...then what is the ideal time after which one can write on it????
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.
well I think it's better than cutting down trees
paper of pergamon
Wow! I was told they used the bark off of birch trees to make parchment 😂
bark was used to write on, indeed, but parchment is from skins...there are plenty of materials people used to write on...
Anybody catch the name of the place?
where can you buy the parchment?
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
Now consider.. Ever been to the National Archives in Washington DC? at the end there.. that's what the Declaration of Independence and all the rest of those documents.. would have looked like at the signing..
Wow. It looks like an A0 size paper.
What do they use this for?? How do they use it? it is still used for cooking? Does it not burn? I do know most parchment paper is made from eucalyptus. I believe that is what they are selling in stores mostly.
Torah scrolls are scribed on this type of parchment.
1:42 noo
"MOISTURIZE ME"
Lime? Like the juice?
Amazing
thats awsome!
Anyone here from the business insider video?
Me. This one is better
In India we love this 😁
I thought parchment was made of a cloth-like material like linen, but animal skins? Pretty awesome video!
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...
This doesn't wear out
WoW
Wow.
Did he touch his face after touching the skin.... o.O
2019?
Are they vegan?
1:42 Eww!! After touching that skin!!
No wonder Europe stayed illiterate for so long. It's so time consuming to just make a piece of parchment.
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.
@stripysockzablefable Not us! :L :D
This is amazing. Wish there were workshops on making vellum
I cant imagine that u are torchering a animal
Shame on uuuu
: )
Oh vegans won't like this
Good
Early apostles wrote bible epistle in animal parchment as these ?
the presenter looks very uninterested!
OMG to think I nearly bought some it’s disgusting process
So is birth. But babies are beautiful!!!
poor animals, humans are monsters
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very interesting but at the same time, in our advanced century where many alternatives are available, it's very cruel and unnecessary
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! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎😎