Vellum Quotes

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. (Alexandre Dumas)
The pages of most books were of mottled parchment, that is, dried sheepskin, which was universally available-and nowhere more abundant than in Ireland, whose bright green fields still host each April an explosion of new white lambs. Vellum, or calfskin, which was more uniformly white when dried, was used more sparingly for the most honored texts. View quote
Thomas Cahill