I will give it a shot, but right now I am waiting for my secret weapon. I bought 30$ worth of 150 year old english land deeds on vellum. They should be here in a week or two. I will wash and scrape them and then have two 22*28 sheets of REAL vellumm!!!!!! I also did some research and found out that vellum makers produce a composite product called opaline. I have contacted an SCA limner to find out where I can find it. Apparantely it is much cheaper than the real stuff.