In the past, vellum described a writing surface made from animal hides. The vellum was sometimes slightly transparent, and that use of the term remains in use today. Vellum, a favorite paper among ...

Originally, vellum was made from animal skin. Modern vellum is made from cotton rather than wood pulp like regular printer paper. When talking about printers and the printing process, vellum falls ...

Just 522 years after Britain’s first paper mill opened, Parliament has decided to stop printing laws on animal skins. For a thousand years, laws in Britain have been printed on vellum, a costly ...

MPs spent two hours this evening debating whether they should remain in the 11th Century, and keep wasting £80,000 a year printing laws on the skin of dead baby cows Labour's Melanie Onn said it was ...