Handmade Lokta Paper Garland- Flower
Handmade Lokta Paper Garland- Flower
Bring some flower power to your life with the Handmade Lokta Paper Flower Garland. This garland features plain and patterned Lokta paper made in Nepal. Lokta paper is made using very little electricity with bark from the Daphne plant. When harvesting the bark for the paper, the plant remains alive so it is a sustainable resource. The paper is made by hand and printed by hand using traditional processes. A women's cooperative uses the decorative Lokta paper to hand cut each flower. The handmade flowers are sewn together to form a garland that measures approximately 5 1/2 feet in length. The Handmade Lokta Paper Flower Garland is a perfect gift or decoration.
Read more about Lokta papers in our blog post:
"Lokta paper is made from the bark of a Daphne bush, which grows exclusively at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. The inner bark provides extremely long fibers to create paper, which gives Lokta paper a very durable quality. To create the Lokta paper, the bark is striped from a living bush which not only helps the bush to grow, but the bark completely regenerates in six to seven years. (A truly eco-friendly paper!) The inner bark is cooked, beaten down into a wet pulp, and scooped up into paper molds. Color is added to the paper through natural bark and flower based dyes, and this paper never touches chemicals or bleaches. Not only is Lokta paper hand pulled, it is also hand-dyed, hand screen printed, and batiked (stamped with wax) making every sheet unique in color and weight."
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