Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Gutenberg Press Response
Holy crap were those guys excited about that press. Admittedly it did make me want to build a printing press out of wood. It was interesting to learn all the work that went into making the press, the letters, and the paper. I never knew that without the paper, Gutenberg would have failed at making his machine popular, since velum was so hard to make.
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traditionally vellum was made from sheep, not moo cows as reported in the video.
OK, i'm wrong. sheep OR calves=vellum!
Point is, they still would have had a one hell of a time making all that material.
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