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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2823065, member: 14873"]Excellent [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] ! Best quality Vellum and Parchment is prohibitively expensive these days -- more pricey than gold leaf! I used to buy all of my skins from William Cowley (Newport Pagnell, just north of London on the M1 - home of Morgan motor cars). But I digress -- forgive me, I got carried away! Good quality skins are hard to come by these days - even the descriptions have changed. I used to mostly use Cowley manuscript Vellum for presentations - Goatskin Vellum for bookbinding. I laid in a good supply of skins years ago in anticipation of the rise in prices. Following is a (snippet) collage of old order/letters showing how it used to be:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/cal344.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>...... and a fairly recent supplier's sampler showing changed descriptions:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/00000vellum.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2823065, member: 14873"]Excellent [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] ! Best quality Vellum and Parchment is prohibitively expensive these days -- more pricey than gold leaf! I used to buy all of my skins from William Cowley (Newport Pagnell, just north of London on the M1 - home of Morgan motor cars). But I digress -- forgive me, I got carried away! Good quality skins are hard to come by these days - even the descriptions have changed. I used to mostly use Cowley manuscript Vellum for presentations - Goatskin Vellum for bookbinding. I laid in a good supply of skins years ago in anticipation of the rise in prices. Following is a (snippet) collage of old order/letters showing how it used to be: [IMG]http://jp29.org/cal344.jpg[/IMG] ...... and a fairly recent supplier's sampler showing changed descriptions: [IMG]http://jp29.org/00000vellum.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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