Sentences with phrase «calfskin vellum»

Depiction of Craighall of Rattray Armorial Bearings, handpainted in gouache on calfskin vellum.

Heraldic Artist and Calligrapher in the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, since 1989, producing handpainted and handwritten Grants and Matriculations of Armorial Bearings on calfskin vellum documents, which are also legal documents in Scotland.

I'm still grieving the loss of books hand - painted onto calfskin vellum by cloistered monks.

Not exact matches

This was a laborious process that involved carving letters or pictures onto a block of wood, inking the finished product, and pressing it onto vellum (a surface made from calfskin) or paper (invented in China and introduced to Europe by Arab traders in the thirteenth century).

The results show cow, goat, and sheepskin were all used, not just cow, suggesting that the thin vellum was a question of time - consuming craftsmanship rather than reliance on fetal calfskin.

As for the stuff of the manuscript itself, the Sotheby's catalog described it as vellum, or fine parchment usually made from young animals, «probably calfskin.»