Parchment
animal skin processed for writing or painting on From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parchment is a thin material made from animal skin. The most common use for parchment was as a material for writing on, for the pages of a book. It is different to leather in that parchment is limed but not tanned. The better qualities of parchment are named vellum.
Central European (Northern) type of finished parchment made of goatskin stretched on a wooden frame
An English deed written on fine parchment or vellum with seal tag dated 1638.
A Sefer Torah, the traditional form of the Hebrew Bible, is a scroll of parchment.
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