Show finest parchment made in small english Englif lh town i in H avant hampshire england there flourishes a band of men engaged in making the finest parchment in the world they possess a skill that has been passed from father to son for centuries tn intact fact before norman times men were dressing sheep skins at fayant and their descendants follow tb the e same trade at present there Is one mancho man who has worked at it for 75 years two other men have ga and 60 years service behind them one of the partners in the firm is a magic spring parchment mak making ingis Is a long process and water plays a great part at af favant havant there is a spring of a special degree of chalkl nesa neso and although chemical experiments have been made no water has been produced that can rival this spring wh which ich produces a pearliness pearll ness to be found in no other parchment |