Timeline for Hypernym for anything you would write on?

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Dec 18, 2019 at 15:47	comment	added	jsw29		The OP's question may have been 'nothing much about art', but the answer is, in its own words, about a term that is used 'mostly in the context of art [rather] than writing'. In any event, the answer is about 'materials', generally, while the OP is looking for a specific term for the writing surface, as distinct from the other materials involved (i.e. the materials that are applied to the surface, such as ink).
Dec 18, 2019 at 7:55	comment	added	Kris		Thanks for the generous down vote, too.
Dec 18, 2019 at 7:55	comment	added	Kris		@jsw29 Writer, writing -- note the context -- it's nothing much about art.
Dec 15, 2019 at 16:36	comment	added	jsw29		As the quoted definition itself makes clear, this sense of medium applies to the material, generally, used by an artist, not specifically the surfaces that pigments are applied to, which is what the OP is asking about. In fact, the word is typically applied only to the most noticeable material, and that is usually not the surface: for example, if an artist paints by applying oil paint to canvass, we are more likely to say that his medium is oil, than that it is canvass.
Dec 15, 2019 at 11:33	history	answered	Kris	CC BY-SA 4.0