Pergamena produces the widest variety of parchments including the most expensive Uterine Calf Parchment that cost about $250 per sheet in 2021.
Pergamena produces the widest variety of parchments including the most expensive Uterine Calf Parchment that cost about $250 per sheet in 2021.
The company also produces artisan leather in a variety of colors.
The company also produces artisan leather in a variety of colors.
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Pergamena is the Last Parchment Producer in the U.S.: How Jesse Meyer and his Family Business Make Parchment

3/5/2021
Jesse Meyer showing how parchment is stretched and dried.
Jesse Meyer showing how parchment is stretched and dried.
On March 5, 2021 Business Insider Today published a video on Facebook entitled How Parchment Is Made At The Last Workshop In The US. The brief documentary explained how Jesse Meyer, whose family has been tanners for nearly 450 years, makes parchment in a business called Pergamena. Pergamena is a division of the Richard E. Meyer and Sons tannery in Montgomery, New York.

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