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This is a tinie roll of parchment that I made. I'll submit the open roll to the drawings catagory. This is the pelt of a female red squirrel. I flayed the squirel, fleshed out the pelt, and stuck it in a bucket of mud made form ashes and water. I pulled it out and hour later and easily removed all the hair which had been loosened by the Potasium Hydroxide (pot ash or chemicaly KOH) which fairly strong base so you can't get it on your hands, it turned the white ash stick I used to stir it bright yellow. I then stretched it in the sun and did some final scraping. Once it had dried I worked it to whiten it by intorducing air into the colapsed cell walls. It is rediculously thin at the edges which was the squirrels unerside. The swade side is facing out, the top grain it facing in. From start to finish it only took about two hours and this is the smallest of three rolls of parchment I made in that time.
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