Calfskin
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Calfskin or calf leather is a leather or membrane produced from the hide of a calf, or juvenile domestic cattle. Calfskin is particularly valuable because of its softness and fine grain, as well as du
Calfskin leather dyed black
Calfskin leather boot
Vellum
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Vellum is prepared animal skin or membrane, typically used as writing material. It is often distinguished from parchment, either by being made from calfskin, rather than the skin of other animals, or
Calfskin
…products, as well as traditional leather bookbindings. In these contexts, just "calf" is commonly used. Fine calfskin is one of the skins used for vellum and parchment manuscripts. In Spanish, the word is Ternera/Novillo, referring to leather from animals less than three years old. Chickenskin, despite…
Magna Carta, written in Latin on vellum, held at the British Library
A vellum deed dated 1638, with pendent seal attached
A vellum copy of the Gutenberg Bible owned by the U.S. Library of Congress
A Volume Of Treatises on Natural Science, Philosophy, and Mathematics (1300) Ink on vellum.