Nepali entrepreneurs involved in the production and export of handmade lokta paper are eyeing brighter days ahead, hoping to boost the current trade volumes by three folds to Rs 1,000 million. Lokta ...
In Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, the town of Kalpi has built a distinctive handmade paper industry where discarded fabric waste is turned into thick ...
Naheed Hafiz, who makes and sells handmade paper and runs '˜The Paper Shoppe' in the city, believes that there is a lot more awareness about handmade paper today Naheed Hafiz with her collection of ...
KATHMANDU: Lokta Paper is taking its old place after 11 years. Come 2010 and you’ll have a Nepali citizenship card from Nepali handmade paper like in the old days. But this time around, it will be a ...
In one of the rooms of the Jungshi Handmade Paper Factory in Thimphu, Bhutan, Jamyang, 73, is hard at work. Sitting cross-legged against the wall, she deftly sorts boiled fibres of the daphne plant, a ...
The private groups are the Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. and Federation of Handmade Papermakers and Converters. Dr. Florentino O. Tesoro, FPRDI director, noted that the demand for handmade ...
When Janice went on holiday to Zimbabwe in 2008, she discovered handmade paper products with texture and colors she had never seen before. She immediately contacted their maker, Walter Ruprecht, who ...