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Medieval borders for word documents3/3/2024 Parchment did not disappear in the 16th century. Though papermaking had been made in Europe for centuries, production really ramped up by the early 1500s in an effort to keep up with the demands of early printers. Parchment was the standard sheet material in Europe until the late 15th c., when it began to compete with paper. Medieval and early modern parchmenters understood their product, and scribes and bookbinders did too. The parchment used for the outside of a binding was durable and thicker than what you would find on the folios of a fine book of hours for example – and the bookbinders were looking for something durable and generally did not need a blemish-free product. This is often the case with the parchment used for limp and semi-limp covers, and suggests that medieval and early modern parchmenters were selling a range of sheet materials, graded by thickness, color, surface quality, level of defect or irregularity. Here the user didn’t shy away from using the part of the sheet with a sewn repair or a less than perfect sheet.
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