Lokta Paper Gift Bag WW0GB

Lokta paper 'batik' gift bag in purple. Make your gift special by using one of these Lokta paper gift bags made from hand made paper with twisted handles.

Size: 20cm wide (8inches); 25cm high (9.75inches). Gusset 10m (4inches).

The design on these Lokta paper bags is drawn in wax and when the paper is dipped the waxed parts do not absorb the colour – this process is called Batik. The wax is removed and the design applied by hand to the exposed paper.

For approximately 1,000 years handmade paper has been produced in the mountain area of Nepal. The raw material used is the bark of the Daphne Cannabina or Daphne Papyracea bush, locally known as ‘Lokta’. The bark is gathered at high altitudes of 6,500 to 9.500 feet and carried down to villages where local paper makers clean and boil it twice. The boiled bark is beaten with wooden mallets, producing a soft pulp which is poured over screened wooden frames floating in a pond, and spread evenly by gently shaking.  The pulp dries in the Himalayan sunshine and the resulting paper is peeled off the frame.

Nepali handmade paper is environmentally friendly and sustainable. After harvesting, the Lokta bush naturally regenerates, reaching full maturity again in six to seven years, thus preserving the fragile forest ecology of Nepal, as well as giving continued work to the many mountain villages.

It is entirely hand made.

Weight: 0.060kg

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