

If you're looking to make your stationery stand out, try printing colorful images, text, or patterns right onto vellum! Print vellum at home, or save ink and time and let us print your vellum for you. Vellum makes an enticing invitation overlay or insert, as invitation details are just slightly clouded by this delicate, light-weight paper. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of young animals such as lambs and young calves.

The appeal of vellum lies not only its transparency, but also in its versatility. Our translucent vellum bands are offered in two sizes and our vellum wraps in three sizes to better suit your creative needs. Vellum wraps and bands are not only pretty, but a nice way to organize all of the cards in your invitation suite. Address them and put them in the mail like regular envelopes, or use them as inner envelopes. Like vellum paper, these envelopes are translucent and frosty. Natural Goat Vellum Parchment - Antique and Traditional - Parchment for calligraphy, painting, bookbinding, artwork and more (178) 9.51. Vellum envelopes are a creative way for the recipient to get a sneak peek of what's inside before opening the envelope. Vellum is a great way to decorate and accent your scrapbooking project, greeting cards, invitations, and so much more. The most common is watercolor paper, but other surfaces such as vellum, parchment, clay mineral panels, sumi rice paper, or thin fabrics such as silk can be. Choose standard translucent vellum or give your project a vintage look with cloudy European Parchment Paper. Whatever your creative medium or trade, we've got you covered. Vellum is offered in a variety of convenient pre-cut sizes used by creative hobbyists and professionals alike. Vellum paper, commonly referred to as sheer, see through, or transparent paper is a delicate, translucent paper with a smooth surface and an appearance similar to frosted glass. The flesh side is creamy in color and velvety in finish.Translucent Vellum Paper - Sheer Delight.
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The skin side is mottled and ranges in tone from light tan to deeper shades of light brown and from light gray to darker gray. I sraeli Calfskin Vellum: These skins from Israel are unique and outstanding in structure and beauty. Goatskins are also typically softer & smaller in size than calf, and more reasonably priced. Their thinner & more supple nature often make them preferable over calfskins for certain usages. Not as strong and resilient as calfskin, but still very uniform in surface with great luminosity.Ĭowley's Goatskin Parchment: Goatskins are typically noted for their distinctive grain. Manuscript skins have been prepared on both sides for calligraphy or illumination and ideal to be used with a hard edged pen or steel nib.Ĭowley's Sheepskin: White/off-white in color.

While this coating does add significant depth to the skin, none of the luminosity innate to the properties of the skin seems to be lost.Ĭowley's Manuscript (MSS) Calfskin: Typically the lightest in tone of the calfskins (asides from Kelmscott). Kelmscott skins are especially sought after by botanical painters due to their smoothness and ease of erasure simply by scraping away a top layer of the coating with a knife. Originally made to simulate ivory, these skins are finished with a plaster of paris coating that adds to the overall thickness of the skin. All cut pieces have been finished for writing and illumination on both sides, though additional preparation may be necessary to ones own preferences.Ĭommonly used for calligraphy, painting, illumination, bookbinding, and furniture making.Ĭowley's Kelmscott Calfskin: These are the whitest & the heaviest of all the vellums.
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Cut size pieces are an alternative to buying full skins of a particular animal. These are the finest manuscript quality cut sizes of Calf, Sheep, and Goatskin produced by Cowley's in England.
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