How to make a wax seal?
If you’ve ever been fascinated by calligraphy, stationary and the old times, then you might already be familiar with wax seals. Applied to paper, parchment or envelopes, they represent mystery and aristocratic elegance. But wax seals were not only about style – over the centuries they had a very practical purpose. They were used to authenticate documents and to certify that they were not tampered with. Indeed, the impression on the seal (a crest or a symbol) was an even more important identifier than a personal signature. An important seal could be recognizable even by illiterate citizens and thus be able to give the document adequate respect and recognition. Wax seals were also simply used to physically bond parts of the parchment or rolls (sometimes with the help of a rope or ribbon) in order to prohibit unwanted eyes from reading letters or documents. These were the times before envelopes. The seal wax had to be rather strongly attached to the parchment or paper, but at the same tim
