Buy ethical parchment

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If you are a scribe looking to source ethical parchment, we would love to work with you.

Most parchment used for STaM today comes from industrial agro-business supply chains. Few buyers know how the animals were raised or the hides processed. In fact, most klaf comes from the hides of fetal calves whose mothers were slaughtered pregnant. Fetal calf hide is very thin and supple. From a technical standpoint, it's the best material to work with.
But for us, there is no holiness in such exploitation.

The Kedusha Project is committed to ethical sourcing. Where possible, we source our hides from roadkill. When roadkill isn't enough to meet demand, we seek hides from hunted deer or from farms with high ethical standards. We promise each animal that we will do our utmost to make the best possible use of its hide--even knowing that we inevitably will fall short of this standard of perfection. We rely on traditional and innovative hide-splitting methods to maximize the kedusha that can be scribed on each hide. We make the klaf you're probably used to--the white parchment commonly used by Ashkenazim and Sefardim. But we also make so much more. We are the only practitioners in North America making Mizrahi parchments--gvil, klaf me'upatz, and duchsustus.

To give you a rough sense of prices, we will usually charge:

  • $10 for parchment for one mezuzah

  • $40 for parchment for a set of tefillin

  • $500 for parchment for a megillah

  • $10,000 for parchment for a Torah scroll

The actual price will depend on your unique needs (such as layout, parchment type, etc.). We will work with you to figure out the parchment that is right for you. For inquiries, please send us an email.

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