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The popularity of parchment boosts Bergama

31/07/2018

The town of Bergama, 100 kilometres north of Izmir in Turkey, is gaining in popularity among new generations of tourists thanks to the revival among local artisan tanners of the art of making parchment. 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 ...

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