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Vellum, vellum short, is a uniformly structured and smooth, the parchment visually similar paper. The smoothness was achieved by using especially fine copper wire strainers, the Egoutteursieb, for scooping. Formerly Vellum was particularly appreciated for pen and ink drawings, as it strongly glued and thus is hard. The same product characteristics is, though, not for gravure printing processes such as etchings and engravings. Today it is considered high-quality paper for printers and plotters.

The term is derived from vellum, a high-quality parchment. The vellum was at that time as a special feature, as the handmade paper sheets exhibited by the mandatory Handschöpfsieb a structure with the characteristic ribs and webs. It was made in his early phase as the other pages in the usual strife raw materials.

The English printer John Baskerville used as the first 1757 vellum for printing an omnibus edition of Virgil's " Bucolics ", " Georgics " and " Aenneis ". In Germany the first vellum was produced in 1783 by the papermaker Georg Christoph Keferstein in its paper mill in Kröllwitz ( near Halle / Saale).