India’s paper tradition has an antiquity of nearly a thousand years. Even though is presently caught in a struggle between the changing past and an unknown future, India still has the largest population of hand paper makers in the world. Handmade paper is used multi-fold in Sikkim, from religious manuscripts to its use in monasteries […]
India’s paper tradition has an antiquity of nearly a thousand years. Even though is presently caught in a struggle between the changing past and an unknown future, India still has the largest population of hand paper makers in the world. […]
Fine natural paper, made by hand, from the local saa or paper mulberry tree (broussonetia papyrifera), represents an unbroken tradition of papermaking, common across the South East Asian region, going back to over 700 years and possibly tracing its origin to the ancient art of papermaking in China. The paper mulberry tree is a small […]
The dense peaked landscapes of the mountainous region of Nepal are the habitat of the high attitude plant Daphne (lokta) which has been used for centuries for making paper. It is conjectured that the Chinese technique of paper-making was brought from Tibet over the ancient trade routes about a thousand years ago and that skilled […]
Before the introduction of paper, the leaves and bark of trees, the palm and plantain, especially the bhojpatr and talpatr were used. Cloth treated specially for use for manuscript, metal, leather including vellum, and parchment were also in use. Once introduced into this country, the craft of paper making flourished and demands for the country’s […]