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Handmade
paper Production is based on only handmade Nepali
paper made from Lokta. Lokta is the raw material for
Nepal's most important indigenous paper. The word
"Lokta refers to any of several local species
of Daphne, small woody parts of the Laurel family.
The paper is prize for its rough, attractive texture,
its durability and its resistance to insect.
Lokta
is the bark of several indigenous paper of Nepal.
the oldest available manuscripts of Hindu and Buddhist
texts, Royal edicts and legal documents were recorded
on the Nepali paper made of palm leaves or lokta paper.
Gifts
from the Himalayas
Lokta grows at an elevation of 2000 to 2700 meters
in the under story of the forest of Nepal's hills.
The production process of a handmade paper starts
from cooking the dried bark of Lokta or Daphne papyracea
with ash or caustic soda solution. The soften bark
received after boiling is taken out and washed with
clean water to remove impurities and then cut into
small pieces with sickle. The small pieces of bark
once again cooked with the required proportion 
of
water.
After
cooking the soft bark is clean with water then kept
on a plane and flat stone for beating with wooden
hammer to turn into fine pulp. After beating the pulp
is mixed with required amount of water and stirred
with wooden ladle to form a homogeneous emulsion of
pulp. Then the pot full of pulp-measuring tool is
put into the frame, which is being floated in the
pond. As soon as the pulp is put over the frame, the
frame is gently shaken to spread pulp evenly over
the frame. The frame is then taken out from the pond
and the frame with the layer of the pulp (wet sheet
of paper) is taken away for drying in the sunlight.
The layer of pulp, which becomes a sheet of paper
in the frame after drying, is peeled sl
owly
from the frame.
Our
main motto is to develop Nepali Traditional Crafts,
industries in hand printing and paper making so that
it can be improved standard of living of rural and
urban areas of low-income families.
Fact about vegetable dyeing. Nepal
have graced with great altitudinal variation from
plain to Mount Everest, lodged with plenty of dye
yielding plants. These dyestuffs if not collected
in time, decay into soil. The establishment of home-based
traditional dyeing industry will generate job opportunities
in dyestuff collection & their transportation.
Most
of vegetable colors are subtle, warm, earthy &
fast to sunlight & washing. The depth & shade
of color increases as aging & last longer that
the material itself. Most natural dyes are not toxic
so allergy caused by coloring mat
erials
is minimum. As being not synthetic material, the coloring
effluents do not pollute surrounding environment (soil,
air, water etc.).
One of the most fascinating aspects of natural dye
is the variability & unpredictability of the shades
one can expect, even under what appears to be uniform
conditions. The plants themselves vary, depending
on their age, climate, soil conditions & growing
conditions, the dyer will vary in their techniques
used as to timing, dyeing & subsequent procedures.
All of this, we feel adds to the pleasure & spice
of using natural dyes & approached by synthetic
dyes.
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