Lightweight, but it has more body than the thin crinkly tracing paper in rolls. The stuff I've seen labelled vellum, in pads in the typical art supply store is the high-grade translucent tracing PAPER, Perhaps if you had written "Here in Australia modern Vellum is not always 100% cotton. " Well, seeing that you pretty much said that I was full of **it, I asked for your basis. In your answer, you directly contradicted this by stating "Modern Vellum is not 100% cotton. ![]() Some of mine is even marked "100% rag"." I had a basis for this, including a box of the stuff sitting right in front of me. In my post I stated "I had read somewhere that it is cotton. BTW - that is why I presented you with my findings and asked for your basis rather than simply (and stupidly) saying "you're wrong". That is why I asked for a basis for your statement (which you have, thankfully, given). Given the global nature of our hobby, complete information like you provided is of considerable value. Quite the opposite! Your explanation makes it clear that there are other products out there called "vellum" that are manufactured differently than what may be "standard" in this country. My knowledge does not help US residents and is just adding confusion. Your vellum is clearly not the same as what I know as vellum. ![]() any online scrapbooking store in AU calls all those mylar products vellum.Ī search of an online paper distributor (Dalton) in AU turns up one result for "Vellum" : "Jac Vellum is a self adhesive, white matt woodfree vellum paper which exhibits good printability by a range of processes." In Australia, all I have ever seen is animal skin vellum and the mylar variety - which IS called vellum here, even though it does not seem to be referred to as such anywhere else. The link to the ClearPrint product is frankly intriguing. I'm a cartographer by education - our frosted drafting film was never referred to as vellum, and it was not 100% cotton - it was plastic-based. Its generally so fine a texture it won't affect writing or drawing on it like many more heavily textured papers may. Instead of the glassy smooth surface of something like HP laser paper. This may be the source of the question about plastic.Īll "vellums" whether real 100% cotton or just wannabe, have a similar finish, that is, a finely textured surface that takes pencil well. Check wikipedia for more info on Mylar's chemical make-up if you're concerned. At least I've never seen it sold as vellum. This stuff is not commonly sold at your average paper/office store and is usually sold as drawing Mylar, not vellum. However for plans that require greater long term storage and dimensional stability and that are intended for scaling off the drawing and for writing on with pencils some drawings are done on Mylar with a matte finish that looks very similar to vellum with similar translucency. ![]() In general vellum of the "drawing" sort is usually 100% cotton. Given that at least two of us have tablets marked either 100% rag or 100% cotton rag, and given the above excerpt, what basis do you have for saying that modern Vellum is NOT 100% cotton? Just interested. Some brands of writing-paper and other sorts of paper use the term "vellum" merely to suggest quality, when it is actually not vellum. Usually translucent, paper vellum is often used in applications where tracing is required, such as architectural plans. Known as paper vellum, this material is considerably cheaper than animal vellum and can be found in most art and drafting supply stores. A modern imitation is made out of cotton. Today, because of low demand and complicated manufacturing process, animal vellum is expensive and hard to find. I believe some varieties contain acrylic.? But I'm not sure. Modern Vellum is not 100% cotton, and although it feels plasticky (I assume you are talking about a translucent variety), I don't think it is. All of this is clearly confusing, but to answer your specific question.
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