Art, Design and Trends in stationery Stationery has been the mainstay of written communication for thousands of years. The Egyptians developed the form of parchment which was made from very thin animal skins such as goatskin or sheepskin. Only the very wealthy were able to afford parchment paper at the time. Stationery with an e stems from the term stationer, which refers to “a person who sells the materials used in writing, such as paper, pens, pencils, and ink When a civilization is able to write, they can record information about how they have done things. ... The basic idea, then, is that a civilization with writing can preserve its knowledge by writing it down. It can also gather more knowledge than it could without writing . By having more knowledge, it can have more power. Why is handwriting so important? 1. The brain engages differently when we write something by hand as opposed to typing it on a key...