Nepali Paper Swirls - Natural Size:500mm x 750mm An elegant red nonpareil pattern

An elegant red nonpareil pattern

previously known as 'Islandreagh Linen' and used by The Ashmolean Museum and The British Library

Suitable for: paper repair and mono print

now called Shimane prefecture

Nepali Paper Swirls - Natural Size:500mm x 750mm An elegant red nonpareil patternThese wonderful Lokta papers are handmade, & screen printed in the old fashioned way in the Kathmandu valley in Nepal. Made from the bark of a special mulberry bush (within 5 7 years the bush will regrow its branches). The bark is peeled, beaten and cooked until it becomes smooth. Then beaten once more and cut up by machine into small pieces which creates the paper pulp. This is "dissolved" in a large water tank into which the mould for the sheet is