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Writing material

A writing material, also called a writing medium, is a surface that can be written on with suitable instruments, or used for symbolic or representational drawings. Building materials on which writings or drawings are produced are not included. The gross characterization of writing materials is by the material constituting the writing surface (for…

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Early media

Cave paintingsTally sticksPapyrusParchmentCloth
23 related topics

Paper

James WhatmanJohn Baskerville
2 related topics

Electronic media

Pilot 1000
1 related topics

Overview

Suitable instrumentsSymbolicBuilding materialsPaper
4 related topics

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Early media

Paper

Electronic media

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Writing material

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples7
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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Writing material

Top relations

related to Early media · 7
Writing material → Another, Because, Egypt, Egyptians, Parchment, To, Writing

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Important terminology

paper writing materials century used first surface papyrus parchment material drawings cloth clay early another egypt using animal made europe

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaBecause0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaAnother0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaWriting0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaEgypt0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaParchment0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaTo0.60section
Writing materialrelated to Early mediaEgyptians0.60section

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