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Parchment

Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves and goats. It has been used as a writing medium in West Asia and Europe for more than two millennia. By 400 AD many of the written works intended for preservation in these regions had been transferred from papyrus to parchment. Vellum is a type of fine-quality parchment made from the skins of calves.

White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic. It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide.

Shades of white

Shades of white are colors that differ slightly from the CIE standard illuminant D65, a white point that represents the average color of daylight at noon. There isn't one objectively pure white, as noon daylight varies by location and atmospheric conditions, and the choice of using D65 instead of direct sunlight or a white point on the Planckian locus is arbitrary. For simplicity, this article will use the term pure white for the D65 white point.

parchment

Noun

1. Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
2. A document made on such material.

white

Adjective

1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
2. Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.

Noun

1. The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
2. A person of European descent with light-colored skin.