About Thread Cross Patch Note Book :
Nepali Handmade Lokta Rice Paper have been producing in Nepal from nepalese craftsmen since from a thousand years.Now it is used for producing variou snepali paper crafts like greeting cards, stationary sets, notebooks, gift wrapping paper, bags, envelopes, photo frames, paper accessories, lamp shades, table lamps and more. The people of Nepal use natural paper in their daily life for writing valuable legal documents, for making sacred or popular masks, for kites etc. The monks of Tibet have always used it for their manuscripts and for printing sacred texts. This paper is renowned for its exceptional durability and for its lively and special texture. A millennium has passed since the Tibetans introduced the still earlier Chinese technology of paper making to Nepal. The bark from Daphne cannabina or Daphne Papyracea " Lokta" in the local language, is the raw material used. It is gathered at high altitudes in a way that preserves the fragile ecology of Nepalese forests. Then, it is carried to villages two or three days walk down to the mountains, where the paper-makers clean and boil the bark. Beating with wooden mallets produces a pulp which is poured into wooden frames, sun dried sheets are transported to paper factories where they are dyed, stenciled, printed and transformed in to attractive products by craftsmen.