Handmade Paper

Write on something a bit different for once by investing in some handmade paper!





Do you ever get tired of spending all of your time writing on the same old lined A4 pad? After all, we humans are idiosyncratic creatures, and many of us are in thrall to natural variation, rather than the rather soulless paper that we actually find ourselves jotting on half the time. Many people who feel this way also like to protect the environment with their choice of paper products. This naturally brings us onto the subject of handmade paper.





With handmade paper, you can be assured that no one piece is ever the same as another! That’s because whether you choose to buy handmade paper in the form of photo albums, journals, notebooks or other products, and regardless of whether you buy such paper that has been sourced from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal or elsewhere, handmade paper can be made in all manner of weird and wonderful ways. This produces suitably weird and wonderful – but above all, highly endearing - results.





Discover the many amazing varieties of handmade paper





Do you want some examples? Well, how about handmade paper made from elephant dung? This… curious type of handmade paper is made in Sri Lanka and involves, once the elephant has done its bit, collecting the dung and cleaning it by boiling and steaming. This means that once all the bacteria are killed, the pulp can be placed in a shallow mould and turned into paper. This type of paper varies in coarseness depending on the elephant’s diet – which isn’t something that you can say about any other type of paper!





Other popular types of handmade paper include Indian Khadda paper. "Khadda" is the name given to the hard-spun and unbleached cotton rags that are left over from the huge garment industry, so as you might expect, this type of paper involves taking that "khadda" and pulping it. Again, with the help of such potential additions as silk thread and grass, the end result is that no two sheets of the paper are ever identical.





To find an online store that offers a wide range of handmade paper products, simply type ‘handmade paper’ into Google today and perform a search.








With handmade paper available from paperhigh.com you can be sure that you will receive high quality paper from India, Nepal or Sri Lanka at a competitive price.