How parchment is made - Domesday - BBC Two

[@DavidZennaro]

When you watch this it makes you appreciate why books were so expensive back then.

[@DavidZennaro]

@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.

[@frisianrose1618]

Now THAT is vellum. Absolutely beautiful quality. Some of these vids on KZbin show how to make drumskins, not parchment

[@yoroshiku137]

"Moisturize me." 3:20

[@ellie6449]

Exactly what I thought 😂

[@Timetravel1111]

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

[@powerhour4602]

When they rub the parchment with their hands I can hear the weasel from looney toons for some reason.

[@laexdream]

How cool. It's amazing how people thought of these processes. How would one be able to imagine making parchment using this process? Fascinating.

[@frisianrose1618]

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.

[@FriskTheFallen]

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

[@SalmonBucket]

@@FriskTheFallen or maybe alien teach em

[@Chujoi0]

@@SalmonBucket ayy lmao

[@justinnamuco9096]

What happens when animal skin dries is a matter of discovery

[@Satoshi9801]

Amazing how it went from rough and hairy animal skin, to resembling paper made from wood pulp.

[@MRJUGGERNAUTSILLz]

thats whats blowin my mind as well

[@teixeiradasilva6299]

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

[@KristinkaAranova]

Teixeira Da Silva yea I always found that ironic

[@queencleo1151]

An amazing process! I had no idea how parchment was made. Thank you for your video.

[@GodOfVictory501]

Something really satisfying about that process.

[@gblanchard5271]

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.

[@XantherBlaze]

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

[@bobthabuilda1525]

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?

[@nashvillain171]

There is virtually NO waste in the meat products process.

[@nashvillain171]

"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

[@upyours6000]

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

[@Baldoxxx4000]

Peta cant complain since they werent there at that time

[@Ignisan_66]

@Samuel Davidson GTFO soyboy

[@dirtpoorchris]

Whoops, I always thought parchment was paper.

[@beckarkottke]

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

[@liawatson5789]

Rebecca K me, too!

[@EricBrownBey]

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

[@ErikAdalbertvanNagel]

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

[@Timetravel1111]

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

[@thelightsociety1]

is there more on how whole process done like from sanding and or dusting and so on i like to see more

[@seanoconnor8423]

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?

[@janasrnkova653]

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...

[@elaenia]

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

[@XantherBlaze]

@@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.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

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.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

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.

[@Jhowy-wu3mr]

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.

[@inspiratismedia]

this could be like for a trampoline it looks a loot of FUN!!!

[@aaravshreyesh5152]

very informative for a short video. Thanks a lot

[@KatharineCalligraphy]

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

[@ctyk99]

its a good information for me because now im studying how to made a parchment..

[@sayitaintso7544]

Wow! Now I wonder how they handled typos back then. Leonardo Da Vinci is like "has anyone seen my *white-out* ?"

[@massnb]

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

[@optimisticnihilist3417]

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

[@hassanas.benjamin3818]

What a process

[@marymary5494]

Fascinating Thank you

[@hanniffydinn6019]

I always write on calf skin. It lasts for centuries. 🤯

[@stunningsuman4840]

😢😢😢

[@TravisLee33]

Incredible, who knew.

[@sohelkazi8028]

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

[@mariapilarme]

Anybody catch the name of the place?

[@ScYtH-]

Came here because of Myne-chan (ascendance of the bookworm).

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

What does it smell like?

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Now dr who makes sense!

[@underthenorthernstar]

I thought parchment was made of a cloth-like material like linen, but animal skins? Pretty awesome video!

[@janasrnkova653]

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...

[@kriegsammler]

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..

[@ismailhakkguzeler7481]

paper of pergamon

[@hizzaddinno394]

Wow. It looks like an A0 size paper.

[@TUpton-jl2ui]

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.

[@cooperrobt12]

Torah scrolls are scribed on this type of parchment.

[@randyneil6161]

Amazing

[@skfiroz904]

Can any one answer this???."once the parchment is prepared ...then what is the ideal time after which one can write on it????

[@XantherBlaze]

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

[@optimisticnihilist3417]

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

[@ThatIndianBlader]

In India we love this 😁

[@pajarocesar]

God save the paper sheet!

[@askewniverse2271]

where can you buy the parchment?

[@Gordito158]

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

[@mikahytonen929]

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

[@jancampbell1558]

Try William Cowley Parchment and Vellum Makers

[@robertbeato9278]

Lime? Like the juice?

[@d.a.6911]

well I think it's better than cutting down trees

[@wilmarsh133]

thats awsome!

[@philipjohann]

Anyone here from the business insider video?

[@Surya-jz6te]

Me. This one is better

[@k8ieg]

Wow! I was told they used the bark off of birch trees to make parchment 😂

[@janasrnkova653]

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

[@phemyda94]

"MOISTURIZE ME"

[@FireofHolySpiritb-Fire]

WoW

[@messianic_scam]

This doesn't wear out

[@teixeiradasilva6299]

1:42 noo

[@HappiProductions1]

Wow.

[@MasteroftheDead]

Did he touch his face after touching the skin.... o.O

[@mechforever4824]

2019?

[@PeteJK1994]

@stripysockzablefable Not us! :L :D

[@Hello-Gangster-2k]

I cant imagine that u are torchering a animal Shame on uuuu

[@ethandunn5292]

Are they vegan?

[@Nomoreidsleft]

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

[@elaenia]

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

[@dennismitchell5276]

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

[@elaenia]

@@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.

[@asif-uz-zamankhan937]

1:42 Eww!! After touching that skin!!

[@lizmatthews7739]

This is amazing. Wish there were workshops on making vellum

[@ASHOKCHAMLING]

Early apostles wrote bible epistle in animal parchment as these ?

[@James-en1ob]

Oh vegans won't like this Good

[@ECTBWHO]

: )

[@samiminh]

the presenter looks very uninterested!

[@earlrussell1026]

You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Gospel.

[@Vaith]

poor animals, humans are monsters

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

agree. ~💔

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

@mæ ✌. 🌾 🍁 🍂 🍃

[@kishorimalvi2405]

OMG to think I nearly bought some it’s disgusting process

[@XantherBlaze]

So is birth. But babies are beautiful!!!

[@extrasagrada]

very interesting but at the same time, in our advanced century where many alternatives are available, it's very cruel and unnecessary

[@mog3317]

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

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

+extrasagrada Bullshit! Why waste anything?

[@janasrnkova653]

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...

[@brianmerritt5410]

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

[@hanniffydinn6019]

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