The popularity of parchment boosts Bergama
31/07/2018
Bergama is the modern Turkish name for the ancienct city of Pergamon, which is where the art of preparing animal skins for writing and drawing on was first developed. This came about from necessity when, in the second century BC, the authorities in Anatolia began placing restrictions on the use of papyrus.
The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is not lacking in attractive features from the Roman, Hellenic and Ottoman world. More recently, tourists have begun to visit local artisan tanners to observe the process of making parchment and the handicraft of local artists who paint onto the skins.
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