How animal hides are made into parchment at the last workshop of its kind in the US Pergamena is the last workshop in the US that turns animal skins into parchment, an ancient paper-like material that ...

It was in the archives of the Archbishop of York that Matthew Collins had an epiphany: He was surrounded by millions of animal skins. Another person might say they were surrounded by books and ...

Here is the process of turning animal skin—hair and all!—into a piece of parchment that people can write on. It’s really interesting to see it limed and scraped and dried and cut to make a material ...