Vellum/parchment Paper

[ferlew]

I have both, is there a difference?
I have just discovered and love parchment craft.

I know vellum used to be made from animal skin, how is parchment paper made these days, any ideas? Many thanks.

[Buenchico]

This might help:
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/paper-vellum.html

[ferlew]

It does a bit, ta Buenchico, I have been looking for more specifics.
Parchment is amazing, you can make it look so different just by using embossing tools on it.

[URL=http://s12.photobucket.com/user/sibley138/media/luisa_zps82bb28f0.jpg.html][IMG]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/sibley138/luisa_zps82bb28f0.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Made this, this week, took ruddy ages.

[stewey]

Is the parchment paper that you're talking about the same as bakers' parchment paper?

[ferlew]

I think the stuff I use is thicker Stewey.... what bakers call parchment, is what we refer to as greaseproof paper.

[shoota]

http://s12.photobucket.com/user/sibley138/media/luisa_zps82bb28f0.jpg.html
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/sibley138/luisa_zps82bb28f0.jpg

[ferlew]

Many thanks Shoota, will I never learn ?

[stewey]

OK. I use parchment (baker's) paper when I "iron" Filmoplast onto rips and tears in manuscripts, books, etc. It's not greaseproof paper at all. The parchment protects the object that you're working on from being damaged by the iron. See if you can get your link to work: I'd like to see what it is that you do.

[ferlew]

Check Shoota's post Stewey, they made it work :)

[ferlew]

Sorry, I meant 'he'.

[stewey]

Very attractive. That's certainly not the paper that I am using. Thanks.

[ferlew]

Wonder how it's made?

[shoota]

Vegetable (paper) parchment is made by passing a waterleaf (an unsized paper like blotters) made of pulp fibers into sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid hydrolyses and solubilises the main natural organic polymer, cellulose, present in the pulp wood fibers. The paper web is then washed in water, which stops the hydrolysis of the cellulose and causes a kind of cellulose coating to form on the waterleaf. The final paper is dried. This coating is a natural non-porous cement, that gives to the vegetable parchment paper its resistance to grease and its semi-translucency.

[shoota]

(Ain't Wiki wonderful....?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment

[ferlew]

Many biggus Shoota :)

[shoota]

Solubilises - a wonderful word.....

[ferlew]

I rather like ... eviscerate, and monosyllabic. Have used those recently.

[stewey]

It's amazing how a piece of paper can sound so complicated Here's a desciption of the stuff I use (Filmoplast R): "This transparent technical Japanese Mulberry Paper (pH 8.9) is coated with an acrylic adhesive for use in the restoration, repair, and embedding of modern acidic papers. The adhesive is free of plasticizers, is age resistant, colorless, non-yellowing and buffered with magnesium carbonate. The adhesive is activated at a temperature of approximately 120 degrees C/ 250 degrees F, and can be applied with a heat press, heated roller type laminator or tacking iron for spot mending. The adhesive is soluble in acetone and can also be removed by careful reheating."

[ferlew]

Wow!

[stewey]

$62 for a roll 3/4" wide and 160' long...Anyway, it'll last me for (p)ages and (p)ages:)