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Vellum is prepared animal skin or 'membrane', typically used as a material for writing on. Parchment is another term for this material, and if vellum is distinguished from this, it is by vellum being made from calfskin, as opposed to that from other animals,^[1] or otherwise being of higher quality.^[2] Vellum is prepared for writing or printing on, to produce single pages, scrolls, codices or books. The word is derived from the Latin word vitulinum meaning 'made from calf', leading to Old Frenchvélin, 'calfskin'.^[3])

Modern scholars and custodians increasingly use only the less specific if confusing term 'membrane'.^[4][5] Depending on factors such as the method of preparation it may be very hard to determine the animal species involved (let alone its age) without using a laboratory,^[6] and the term avoids the need to distinguish between vellum and parchment.^[4][5]

Vellum is generally smooth and durable, although there are great variations depending on preparation and the quality of the skin. The manufacture involves the cleaning, bleaching, stretching on a frame (a 'herse'), and scraping of the skin with a crescent-shaped knife (a 'lunarium' or 'lunellum'). To create tension, scraping is alternated with wetting and drying. A final finish may be achieved by abrading the surface with pumice, and treating with a preparation of lime or chalk to make it accept writing or printing ink.^[1]

Modern 'paper vellum' is made of synthetic plant material, and is called such for its usage and quality similarities. Paper vellum is used for a variety of purposes including tracing, technical drawings, plans and blueprints.^[7][8][9]

Terminology[edit]

In Europe, from Roman times, the term 'vellum' was used for the best quality of prepared skin, regardless of the animal from which the hide was obtained, calf, sheep, and goat all being commonly used (other animals, including pig, deer, donkey, horse, or camel have been used). Although the term derives from the French for 'calf', animal vellum can include hide from virtually any other mammal. The best quality, 'uterine vellum',^[10] was said to be made from the skins of stillborn or unborn animals, although the term was also applied to fine quality skins made from young animals.^[4] However, there has long been much blurring of the boundaries between these terms. In 1519, William Horman could write in his Vulgaria: 'That stouffe that we wrytte upon, and is made of beestis skynnes, is somtyme called parchement, somtyme velem, somtyme abortyve, somtyme membraan.'^[11] Writing in 1936, Lee Ustick explained that:

To-day the distinction, among collectors of manuscripts, is that vellum is a highly refined form of skin, parchment a cruder form, usually thick, harsh, less highly polished than vellum, but with no distinction between skin of calf, or sheep, or of goat.^[12]

French sources, closer to the original etymology, tend to define velin as from calf only, while the British Standards Institution defines parchment as made from the split skin of several species, and vellum from the unsplit skin.^[13] In the usage of modern practitioners of the artistic crafts of writing, illuminating, lettering, and bookbinding, 'vellum' is normally reserved for calfskin, while any other skin is called 'parchment'.^[14]

Manufacture[edit]

Vellum is a translucent material produced from the skin, often split, of a young animal. The skin is washed with water and lime (Calcium hydroxide), but not together. It is then soaked in lime for several days to soften and remove the hair.^[15] Once clear, the two sides of the skin are distinct: the side facing inside the animal and the hair side. The 'inside body side' of the skin is usually the lighter and more refined of the two. The hair follicles may be visible on the outer side, together with any scarring made while the animal was alive. The membrane can also show the pattern of the animal's vein network called the 'veining' of the sheet.^[16]

Any remaining hair is removed ('scudding') and the skin is dried by attaching it to a frame (a 'herse').^[17] The skin is attached at points around the circumference with cords; to prevent tearing, the maker wraps the area of the skin to which the cord is to be attached around a pebble (a 'pippin').^[17] The maker then uses a crescent shaped knife, (a 'lunarium' or 'lunellum'), to clean off any remaining hairs.

Once the skin is completely dry, it is thoroughly cleaned and processed into sheets. The number of sheets extracted from the piece of skin depends on the size of the skin and the given dimensions requested by the order. For example, the average calfskin could provide roughly three and a half medium sheets of writing material. This can be doubled when it is folded into two conjoint leaves, also known as a bifolium. Historians have found evidence of manuscripts where the scribe wrote down the medieval instructions now followed by modern membrane makers.^[18] The membrane is then rubbed with a round, flat object ('pouncing') to ensure that the ink would adhere to the surface.^[16]

Manuscripts[edit]

Preparing manuscripts[edit]

Once the vellum is prepared, traditionally a quire is formed of a group of several sheets. Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham point out, in their Introduction to Manuscript Studies, that 'the quire was the scribe's basic writing unit throughout the Middle Ages'.^[19] Guidelines are then made on the membrane. They note 'pricking' is the process of making holes in a sheet of parchment (or membrane) in preparation of its ruling. The lines were then made by ruling between the prick marks..The process of entering ruled lines on the page to serve as a guide for entering text. Most manuscripts were ruled with horizontal lines that served as the baselines on which the text was entered and with vertical bounding lines that marked the boundaries of the columns'.^[20]

Usage[edit]

Most of the finer sort of medieval manuscripts, whether illuminated or not, were written on vellum. Some Gandharan Buddhist texts were written on vellum, and all Sifrei Torah (Hebrew: ספר תורה Sefer Torah; plural: ספרי תורה, Sifrei Torah) are written on kosherklaf or vellum.

A quarter of the 180 copy edition of Johannes Gutenberg's first Bible printed in 1455 with movable type was also printed on vellum, presumably because his market expected this for a high-quality book. Paper was used for most book-printing, as it was cheaper and easier to process through a printing press and to bind.

In art, vellum was used for paintings, especially if they needed to be sent long distances, before canvas became widely used in about 1500, and continued to be used for drawings, and watercolours. Old master prints were sometimes printed on vellum, especially for presentation copies, until at least the seventeenth century.

Limp vellum or limp-parchment bindings were used frequently in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were sometimes gilt but were also often not embellished. In later centuries vellum has been more commonly used like leather, that is, as the covering for stiff board bindings. Vellum can be stained virtually any color but seldom is, as a great part of its beauty and appeal rests in its faint grain and hair markings, as well as its warmth and simplicity.

Lasting in excess of 1,000 years - for example, Pastoral Care (Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 504), dates from about 600 and is in excellent condition - animal vellum can be far more durable than paper. For this reason, many important documents are written on animal vellum, such as diplomas. Referring to a diploma as a 'sheepskin' alludes to the time when diplomas were written on vellum made from animal hides.

Modern usage[edit]

British Acts of Parliament are still printed on vellum for archival purposes,^[21] as are those of the Republic of Ireland.^[22] In February 2016, the UK House of Lords announced that legislation would be printed on archive paper instead of the traditional vellum from April 2016.^[23] However, Cabinet Office MinisterMatthew Hancock intervened by agreeing to fund the continued use of vellum from the Cabinet Office budget.^[24]

Today, because of low demand and complicated manufacturing process, animal vellum is expensive and hard to find. The only UK company still producing traditional parchment and vellum is William Cowley (established 1870), which is based in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. A modern imitation is made of cotton. Known as paper vellum, this material is considerably cheaper than animal vellum and can be found in most art and drafting supply stores. Some brands of writing paper and other sorts of paper use the term 'vellum' to suggest quality.

Vellum is still used for Jewish scrolls, of the Torah in particular, for luxury book-binding, memorial books, and for various documents in calligraphy. It is also used on instruments such as the banjo and the bodhran, although synthetic skins are available for these instruments and have become more commonly used.

Paper vellum[edit]

Modern imitation vellum is made from plasticized rag cotton or fibers from interior tree bark. Terms include: paper vellum, Japanese vellum, and vegetable vellum.^[9][8] Paper vellum is usually translucent and its various sizes are often used in applications where tracing is required, such as architectural plans. Its dimensions are more stable than a linen or paper sheet, which is frequently critical in the development of large scaled drawings such as blueprints. Paper vellum has also become extremely important in hand or chemical reproduction technology for dissemination of plan copies. Like a high-quality traditional vellum, paper vellum could be produced thin enough to be virtually transparent to strong light, enabling a source drawing to be used directly in the reproduction of field-used drawings.^[25]

Preservation[edit]

Vellum is ideally stored in a stable environment with constant temperature and 30% (± 5%) relative humidity. If vellum is stored in an environment with less than 11% relative humidity, it becomes fragile, brittle, and susceptible to mechanical stresses; if it is stored in an environment with greater than 40% relative humidity, it becomes vulnerable to gelation and to mold or fungus growth.^[26] The optimal temperature for the preservation of vellum is 20 ± 1.5 °C (68 ± 2.7 °F).^{[citation needed]}

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Differences between Parchment, Vellum and Paper'. archives.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
2. ^Stokes, Roy Bishop, Almagno, 114
3. ^'vellum'. Online Etymological Dictionary. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
4. ^ ^abcStokes and Almagno 2001, 114
5. ^ ^abClemens and Graham 2007, pp. 9–10.
6. ^Cains, Anthony (1994). 'The surface examination of skin: a binder's note on the identification of animal species used in the making of parchment'. In O'Mahony, Felicity (ed.). The Book of Kells: proceedings of a conference at Trinity College Dublin, 6–9 September 1992. Aldershot: Scolar Press. pp. 172–4. ISBN0-85967-967-5.
7. ^Drafting, 60-61
8. ^ ^ab'Japanese vellum - CAMEO'. cameo.mfa.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-03. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
9. ^ ^ab'How Modern Day Vellum Stationery Is Produced'. The Note Pad | Stationery & Party Etiquette Blog by American Stationery. 2011-07-04. Archived from the original on 2017-09-03. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
10. ^Houston, Keith (2016). The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN978-0-393-24479-3. Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
11. ^William Horman, Vulgaria (1519), fol. 80v; cited in Ustick 1936, p. 440.
12. ^Ustick 1936, p. 440.
13. ^Young, Laura, A., Bookbinding & conservation by hand: a working guide, Oak Knoll Press, 1995, ISBN1-884718-11-6, ISBN978-1-884718-11-3, Google booksArchived 2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
14. ^Johnston, E. (1906 et seq.) Writing, Illuminating, and Lettering; Lamb, C.M. (ed.)(1956) The Calligrapher's Handbook; and publications of Society of Scribes & Illuminators
15. ^'The Making of a Medieval Book'. The J. Paul Getty Trust. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
16. ^ ^ab''Recording the physical features of Codex Sinaiticus'. Codex Sinaiticus, in partnership with the British Library'. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
17. ^ ^abClemens and Graham 2007, p. 11.
18. ^Thompson, Daniel. 'Medieval Parchment-Making'. The Library 16, no. 4 (1935).
19. ^Clemens and Graham 2007, p. 14.
20. ^Clemens and Graham 2007, pp. 15–17.
21. ^'Goat skin tradition wins the day'. BBC News Online. 1999-11-02. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. Retrieved 2016-02-11. Acts of Parliament dating back to 1497 recorded on vellum are currently held in the House of Lords Public Record Office
22. ^'Frequently Asked Questions about the Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais'. Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2016-02-11. Once a Bill has been passed by both Houses, the Taoiseach presents a vellum copy of the Bill, prepared in the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas to the President for signature and promulgation as law.
23. ^Hughes, Laura (2016-02-09). 'Thousand year old tradition of printing Britain's laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000'. The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
24. ^Hughes, Laura (2016-02-14). 'Vellum should be saved in a bid to 'safeguard our great traditions', says minister'. The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-02-15. Mr Hancock told The Daily Telegraph: 'Recording our laws on vellum is a millennium long tradition, and surprisingly cost effective. While the world around us constantly changes, we should safeguard some of our great traditions and not let the use of vellum die out.'
25. ^Drafting, 60–61; Yee, Rendow, Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods, 4th edition, 2012, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN1118310446, 781118310441, google
26. ^Eric F. Hansen and Steve N. Lee, 'The Effects of Relative Humidity on Some Physical Properties of Modern Vellum: Implications for the Optimum Relative Humidity for the Display and Storage of Parchment', The Book and Paper Group Annual (1991).

References[edit]

• Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy (2007). Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN978-0-8014-3863-9.
• Hepler, Dana J., Paul Ross Wallach, Donald Hepler, 'Drafting' in Drafting and Design for Architecture & Construction, 9th edition, 2012, Cengage Learning, ISBN1111128138, 9781111128135, Google Books
• Stokes, Roy Bishop, Almagno, Romano Stephen, Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography, 6th edition, 2001, Scarecrow Press, ISBN0810839229, 9780810839229, google books
• Ustick, W. Lee (1936). ''Parchment' and 'vellum''. The Library. 4th ser. 16 (4): 439–43.

External links[edit]

• On-line demonstration of the preparation of vellum from the BNF, Paris—text in French, but mostly visual.

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What is Vellum?

Vellum is a book creation tool for Mac that allows you to professionally format books for publication. The Vellum software is free to download and use, but you'll need to purchase a package to actually export your files to publish.

The Vellum package options are:

1. Vellum Ebooks — allows you to create and export unlimited ebooks.
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2. Vellum Press — allows you to create and export unlimited ebooks and paperbacks.
💰Cost: $249.99

If you purchase Vellum Ebooks first, you can upgrade to Vellum Press for an additional $99.99. However, the mathematically-minded user will realize that this is $50 more than you'd pay for Vellum Press alone. So if there's even a chance that you'll end up printing your books, you might want to invest in Vellum Press outright.

These prices might seem pretty steep for publishing software, but keep in mind that you're not just going to be using Vellum as a replacement for Microsoft Word. Indeed, its primary function is formatting, not writing, and its features allow for fairly sophisticated book design. Its strengths include great import and export abilities, style templates, and a multi-platform previewing tool — all of which we'll cover below.

Did you know? The material 'vellum' is parchment made from stretched calfskin, used by writers for centuries in lieu of paper. Though it's much rarer nowadays, vellum is still used for certain religious and archival purposes, such as printing scrolls of the Torah and the British Acts of Parliament.

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📥 Import capabilities

Though just about every book formatting tool allows you to import other documents, Vellum's import capabilities are quite impressive. You can only import Word .docx files (which makes sense, given that this software is only available for Mac), but the conversion is instantaneous and pretty seamless. Your entire book appears in the app right away, with chapter breaks inserted automatically, as long as you've denoted them with headings in the original document.

You can then edit directly in the app, though your bold, italics, and other basic formatting will carry over. Finally, you can do special formatting, such as ornamental breaks (which you can customize yourself!).

The only hiccup we found with Vellum's importer was that it occasionally messes up the spacing in the first chapter. However, this can be fixed in-app by simply deleting the extra spaces. Some users have also reported chapters being clumped together or out of order. To fix this, just select the configuration icon next to the heading and then choose 'Convert To.'

If you'd like to test out the importer (or any of the following features) yourself, you can do so using the sample documents provided on the Vellum Tutorial page.

📖 Book Styles

If any one feature makes Vellum worth its hefty price tag, it's Book Styles. Once you've arranged your chapters to your heart's content, you can navigate to this panel (under 'Styles' on the left) to tailor just about every other aspect of your formatting and interior design. Start by selecting the overall aesthetic of your book under the main Book Style heading (with stylishly named options such as 'Meridian,' 'Artisanal,' and 'Oxford'). Then go on to customize just about everything else!

For example, remember how we said you can cherry-pick those ornamental line breaks between sections? Vellum provides no less than seven built-in designs, plus the option to upload your own image to use as the 'ornament.' The Book Style panel also supplies multiple options for chapter titles and first paragraphs (including various fonts and drop caps), as well as block quotes, verses, and even images.

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As you switch back and forth among the different styles, Vellum will also display each option in an e-reader preview on the right, so you can get a sneak peek at the final product. Speaking of which, those previews aren't just for experimenting with Book Styles…

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👀 Preview mode

Another helpful feature of Vellum is its Preview mode. Most formatting tools have a preview mode of sorts, but Vellum's is particularly thorough. It allows you to see how your book layout will look on a wide variety of e-readers: Kindle Fire and Paperwhite, Apple iPad and iPhone, Nook SimpleTouch, Kobo Glo, and Android tablet. Simply click on the tablet icon in the toolbar to select your mode of choice.

You can also preview how your pages would appear in a print book. Vellum definitely shines here, as it has both Draft mode (for looking at the overall text) and Proof mode (for scrutinizing the layout and design). The only downside is that Proof mode can be a bit slow to run. So if you're using Vellum to preview a print book, you should probably save the 'Proof' preview until your very last once-over.

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Finally, we have Vellum's export capabilities, which match its trusty import capabilities: the app exports smoothly and true to preview. As long as you've checked over your book on every kind of e-reader, you should have no trouble. Naturally, it also exports in various file types for ebooks, and different trim sizes for print books.

However, it's easy to forget that you won't be able to export files from Vellum without paying for a full package — and you don't want to frustrate yourself by designing the perfect book, only to realize you don't actually have the budget for it. So be honest with yourself about what you're willing (and able) to spend, and weigh your formatting options carefully before you begin this process. Luckily, our next section should help you with that!

Overall pros and cons of Vellum

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👍 Pros

• Various professional, aesthetically pleasing formatting options with Book Styles.
• Can include links to external sources and your other books. If you provide it with the right identifier, Vellum will even generate the correct link depending on what kind of file you export — so for example, if it's a MOBI for Amazon, Vellum will automatically insert the appropriate Amazon link.
• Preview function helps clearly envision the final product, whether it's an ebook or print book.
• No limit to the number of books you can export after you've purchased a package — great for authors self-publishing long series, and even has built-in box set capabilities.

👎 Cons

• Much more expensive to use than comparable book formatting tools, such as Apple Pages (free), Kindle Create (free), the Reedsy Book Editor (free), and Scrivener ($45).
• Not available for PC — though you can still use Vellum on a PC, if you're willing to pay for access to a 'virtual' Mac.
• Doesn't lend itself well to substantial textual edits. For example, if you write a new sentence to replace an old one, but then want to undo the typing (Ctrl+Z), Vellum will undo each individual letter rather than the whole sentence at once. (This is why, though it can be used as a word processor, we recommend waiting to import your book into Vellum until you have a final draft.)

The bottom line

Vellum software is a solid investment if you're planning on self-publishing multiple books, especially if you've been dissatisfied with other DIY formatting options in the past. Waltr 2 6 20 amp. However, if this is only your first book, and/or you're not sure whether you'll go the self-publishing or traditional publishing route, it's best to hold off for now — especially if you're on a budget, since $199.99 (at minimum) is nothing to sneeze at.

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