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Three records so far, each one checked against a real source. Pick one and read.
Britain's last vellum maker is looking for a buyerThe one workshop in Britain still making writing skin, family-run since 1870. Two masters, one apprentice, and no buyer yet.
Two or three people can still make gold sit up off the pageIllumination: gold laid on gesso and burnished until the shine moves as you move. Two or three people still earn their living by it.
The Little Ladies and the Straw BasketSkep making: the coiled-straw hive you cannot open, and the cheque that nearly killed it.
Something you love is fading? Name it and I'll write its record. First look free.