Traditional vellum is a surface used for writing made from animal skin, specifically calves, lambs, or goats. The skin was processed and scraped clean, then 'polished' smooth.
Vellum Paper
Originally a term for high quality paper made from lamb or calf skin and primarily used for calligraphy and manuscript illumination.
Vellum
A very durable support prepared from the skin of a sheep, goat, or calf. The term is often used interchangeably with parchment.
Vellum
A finish of paper that is rough; bulky and has a degree of tooth.
Velox ...
VELLUM/PARCHMENT - (painting) Animal skin processed so that it has a smooth surface suitable for writing or painting.
vellum - Fine parchment, originally calf-skin, used traditionally for manuscripts.
The manuscripts were worked on vellum, using not only colours, but also gold-leaf and other metals, tiny fragments of precious and semi-precious stones and raising paste.
Illuminated Manuscript ...
Several which have been quoted as early instances have proved, on further examination, to be nothing but vellum.
The pages of the books were made out of goat or sheep skins - called parchment or vellum. The manuscripts were produced in monastic centers in the British Isles during the seventh and eighth centuries.
High quality paper, which has good consistency of porousness, will enable cleaner lines,[citation needed] although parchment or vellum is often used, ...
Early miniaturists had painted in watercolour and gouache on vellum or prepared paper. The technique of painting miniatures in enamel on a metal surface was introduced in France in the 17th century and perfected by Jean Petitot.
In 2004, 90 copies on vellum of a new edition were published by Michel Pierson et Ptyx.
1285, tempera on vellum, one of 290 folios, 51.5 x 35.5 cm (20 1/4 x 14 inches), Musei Civici d'Arte Antica, Bologna.
The terms parchment and vellum have long been used indiscriminately, but strictly speaking, vellum should refer only to skins made from calves. Parchment is often made of skins of sheep, thus distinguishing it from vellum.
Books were written on animal skin -- either vellum, which was fine and soft or parchment, which was heavy and shinier.
A very durable surface for writing or drawing, prepared from the skins of sheep, goats or (for higher-quality vellum) calves.
palimpsest A manuscript on which an earlier text has been effaced and the vellum or parchment reused for another.
The Four Evangelists, folio 14 verso of the Aachen Gospels,
ca. 810.
Ink and tempera on vellum.
Cathedral Treasury, vichen.
In the vignette of Florence at the base, papery or vellum-like material is cut and stretched and scolled into a cartouche (cartoccia).
Bristol board: - A sturdy drawing surface used for many types of two-dimensional artwork, including lettering. It is available in several finishes, including a smooth plate finish, a medium, vellum. It can be used on both of its sides. Return to top ...
Durer completed the oil painting towards the end of his travels as a journeyman, almost certainly in Strasbourg. It was originally on vellum, which would have made it relatively simple to transport, ...
The earliest miniaturists (16th century) continued to use the materials of the illuminators, painting in gouache on vellum or card. Minorites (also called Friars Minor and Observants) In the Roman Catholic Church, a branch of the Franciscan order.
 See also: Painting, Composition, Movement, Renaissance, School
  
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