USA Seller! 8X6" Large Tree Free Hard Bound Lokta Paper Journal Bhutani Fabric

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6 X 8" ECO-RENEWABLE TREE FREE HARD BOUND LOKTA PAPER JOURNAL HAND WOVEN FABRIC COVER FROM BHUTAN
measures 6 by 8 inches with approximately 50 pages
the front & back are covered with a beautiful fabric from Bhutan
hand made lokta paper is made from the fast growing & renewable Daphne shrub
Lokta bushes proliferate in open clusters or colonies on the southern slopes of Nepal's
Himalayan
forests between 1,600 and 4,000 m
Lokta paper's durability and resistance to tearing, humidity, insects and mildew have traditionally made lokta paper the preferred choice for the recording of official government records (see photo on right) and sacred religious texts
made the same way for thousands of years
Nepalese handmade lokta paper is made from the fibrous inner bark of high elevation
evergreen
shrubs
primarily from two species of Daphne shrubs
The earliest surviving lokta paper document appears in Nepal's National Archives in Kathmandu in the form of the sacred Buddhist text, the Karanya Buha Sutra. The Karanya Buha Sutra was written in Lichchhavi script and block printed on lokta paper and is estimated to be between 1,000 and 1,900 years old
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