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Brown Waterfall Design Notebook
Product Code: 27.03.1930
Nepali handmade paper making is a 2000 year old technique and one of the ancient traditional crafts from the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. The paper is used in daily life for items such as valuable legal documents, making sacred or popular masks, and kites. The monks of Tibet have always used it for their manuscripts and for printing sacred texts. This paper is renowned for its exceptional durability and for its beautiful texture.
The bark from Daphne, known as lokta in the local language, is found at an altitude of between 6500 to 9500 ft. Daphne is harvested every two to three years and is gathered at high altitudes without destroying the fragile ecology of Nepalese forest. Then, it is carried to villages two or three days walk down the mountains. The paper-makers clean and boil the bark before beating it with wooden mallets which produces a pulp. This pulp is poured on to wooden frames to dry in the sun and once dry, the sheets are transported to paper factories where they are dyed, stencilled, printed, and transformed into products such as this notebook.
This notebook fastens with a tassel, and the pages are unruled.
The bark from Daphne, known as lokta in the local language, is found at an altitude of between 6500 to 9500 ft. Daphne is harvested every two to three years and is gathered at high altitudes without destroying the fragile ecology of Nepalese forest. Then, it is carried to villages two or three days walk down the mountains. The paper-makers clean and boil the bark before beating it with wooden mallets which produces a pulp. This pulp is poured on to wooden frames to dry in the sun and once dry, the sheets are transported to paper factories where they are dyed, stencilled, printed, and transformed into products such as this notebook.
This notebook fastens with a tassel, and the pages are unruled.
Dimensions: 11 X 15 CM
Price: $16.99
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