How Scroll Parchment (cowhide) is made

[Nazaroo]

Here is a great link where you can click and see photos and a discussion of the process of making parchment for the torah scrolls.

Although the process is modern, the material and technique is based upon longstanding general practices:

How Parchment is Made

 

[FreezBee]

Ok, this worked better than the papyrus making thread

Just a question: I believe to have read that it was goatskin that was used in antiquity. Have I been misinformed, or is it just that the material has changed over time?

- FreezBee

 

[Nazaroo]

Ok, this worked better than the papyrus making thread

Just a question: I believe to have read that it was goatskin that was used in antiquity. Have I been misinformed, or is it just that the material has changed over time?

- FreezBee

Because goods were originally 'homegrown' usually, or acquired locally,
I am willing to bet that in many places, say scriptoriums on the Greek Islands,
that sheepskin was used, at least for Christian 'parchments'.

I haven't investigated this thoroughly myself, being more interested in papyrus.
I will see what I can find!