14-04-2026, 06:10 PM
(14-04-2026, 03:03 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Maybe the polymer unattached to the vellum was scrabbed off by friction of the adjacent folio.
But that is what made iron-gall ink "the" ink for writing on vellum: unlike other inks, it could not be erased by rubbing, because the polymer was chemically bonded to the leather. To erase the ink once it was set, one had to scrape it off with a blade, together with the top layer of the vellum.