How parchment is made - Domesday - BBC Two

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Wim Visscher shows Dr Stephen Baxter how to make parchment from animal skins.

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  • I think it's wonderful that in such a fast, busy world, there are still people taking the time to do things the old-fashioned way and keeping the art and tradition alive.

  • the presenter looks very uninterested!

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  • 3:53 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!1

  • "In order to understand the present we must look at the past."

  • That is beautiful!

  • thats awsome!

  • Brilliant video! and as well as the calfskin vellum, he does sheepskin parchment, and Kelmscott vellum, and goat too ...

  • Ohh that's me making parchment!

  • Does anyone know the classical music peice that is playing at the end and over the credits?

    It really good!!!

  • No wonder Europe stayed illiterate for so long. It's so time consuming to just make a piece of parchment.

  • so strange. i had never realized parchment was made from animal skins...i thought it was nearly just like paper...apparently not!

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