HANDMADE PAPER
What is Handmade Paper
The deft skills of crafty hands by making rhythmic movements of majestic sieves convert pulp, which is made of
simple mechanical non-polluting means out of natural, recyclable, renewable and bio degradable materials into
sheets of paper. This is made into a pile by putting alternate napkins or just a bare thread, then pressed to
squeeze out water and dried in shade on stands or under the sun pasted on boards etc. Careful surface coating,
glazing by calendars and trimming to the sizes completes the process of manufacture. This is the Handmade Paper
which possesses many attributes that make unique in myriad ways compared to anything else, even surpassing the
latest sophisticated technology:
1. The process is 100% eco-friendly and non-polluting.
2. The raw materials used are non-wood, renewable, recyclable and biodegradable.
3. The savior of ecology by saving trees: .1 million Handmade Paper Carry bags save 300 trees. One tree that
lives 50 years generates half million worth of oxygen recycles .64 million worth of fertility and soil
erosion; controls 1.05 million worth of air pollution and creates .53 million worth of shelter for birds and
animals besides providing flowers, fruits and timber. When one tree is felled, we lose something worth
more than Rupees 3.02 million (i.e. appr. 66,000USD)
4. All the used and unused waste materials of handmade paper are recyclable.
5. The technology employed is employment intensive and conducive to the welfare of the unprivileged millions,
especially artisans, artists and craftsmen.
The Handmade Paper is beyond compare and unbeatable on the following counts:
1. It is thinnest and most transparent yet it can protect the rare manuscripts for centuries together.
2. It is acid free and iron free, hence its life is almost permanent.
3. Its surface can be glazed and smooth, comparable to any art card, or its surface can be as rough as moon
rock.
4. It can absorb any ink or filter finest particles or hold any liquid as good as any plastic sheet.
5. It can be very fragile or as strong as Japanese papers, which were used as rain coats or umbrellas and
were even used to make balloons to carry (the second world war) for thousands of miles over the skies and
across the seas.
6. Its unique texture and finish for the best of calligraphy and paintings of greatest artists is unmatched
7. Contrary to the common belief, the Handmade Papers are neither always costlier nor unprintable on offset
machines or laser printers. In many cases it is cheaper and better even for printing judged on its total
worth.
8. Its decorative textures; novelty wrappings and designer crafts are unlimited in variety and unachievable by
any thing else.
9. Of course as a vehicle to carry greetings and invitations, there is no dispute about its supremacy
10. And there is no competition at all for drawings and paintings.
Countless is the list of superiority in variety and utility of Handmade Paper.
The deft skills of crafty hands by making rhythmic movements of majestic sieves convert pulp, which is made of
simple mechanical non-polluting means out of natural, recyclable, renewable and bio degradable materials into
sheets of paper. This is made into a pile by putting alternate napkins or just a bare thread, then pressed to
squeeze out water and dried in shade on stands or under the sun pasted on boards etc. Careful surface coating,
glazing by calendars and trimming to the sizes completes the process of manufacture. This is the Handmade Paper
which possesses many attributes that make unique in myriad ways compared to anything else, even surpassing the
latest sophisticated technology:
1. The process is 100% eco-friendly and non-polluting.
2. The raw materials used are non-wood, renewable, recyclable and biodegradable.
3. The savior of ecology by saving trees: .1 million Handmade Paper Carry bags save 300 trees. One tree that
lives 50 years generates half million worth of oxygen recycles .64 million worth of fertility and soil
erosion; controls 1.05 million worth of air pollution and creates .53 million worth of shelter for birds and
animals besides providing flowers, fruits and timber. When one tree is felled, we lose something worth
more than Rupees 3.02 million (i.e. appr. 66,000USD)
4. All the used and unused waste materials of handmade paper are recyclable.
5. The technology employed is employment intensive and conducive to the welfare of the unprivileged millions,
especially artisans, artists and craftsmen.
The Handmade Paper is beyond compare and unbeatable on the following counts:
1. It is thinnest and most transparent yet it can protect the rare manuscripts for centuries together.
2. It is acid free and iron free, hence its life is almost permanent.
3. Its surface can be glazed and smooth, comparable to any art card, or its surface can be as rough as moon
rock.
4. It can absorb any ink or filter finest particles or hold any liquid as good as any plastic sheet.
5. It can be very fragile or as strong as Japanese papers, which were used as rain coats or umbrellas and
were even used to make balloons to carry (the second world war) for thousands of miles over the skies and
across the seas.
6. Its unique texture and finish for the best of calligraphy and paintings of greatest artists is unmatched
7. Contrary to the common belief, the Handmade Papers are neither always costlier nor unprintable on offset
machines or laser printers. In many cases it is cheaper and better even for printing judged on its total
worth.
8. Its decorative textures; novelty wrappings and designer crafts are unlimited in variety and unachievable by
any thing else.
9. Of course as a vehicle to carry greetings and invitations, there is no dispute about its supremacy
10. And there is no competition at all for drawings and paintings.
Countless is the list of superiority in variety and utility of Handmade Paper.
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Why Handmade Paper?
This Earth in the whole of Universe is the only known Human Habitation. Life is full of contradictions. A cat’s
meat is the rat’s death. By harnessing Nature around him, man elevated himself from a wild animal’s ancestry to
the modern day Superman.
Denudation of natural wealth, suppression of the unfortunate majority of his kith and kin, polluting air, water and
land around him beyond limits, imbalancing the ecology by mindless destruction is now the source of present day’s
travails. Man undoubtedly is now the superman, master of all that he surveys, yet he is face to face with an
“Apocalypse”, on the brink of extinction of life itself.
This is not any pessimists prophecy. It is a fact borne out of bare factual scientific statistics. But by no means
we are at the end of the road. There is a way out only if we are determined to find one.
Whether we like it or not, the modern technologies with all its attendant ill effects can not be dispensed with. It
is impossible to put the clock back. One cannot reverse the facts of present generation. Fact remains that the
modern society now needs pragmatic coexistence of both the Sophisticated and the Traditional appropriate
technologies very wisely balanced. Churning of Nectar brings forth Poison too. The survival of humanity lies in
separating the poison and administering the Nectar.
A right balance between sophisticated technologies and traditional eco-friendly arts and crafts; automation and
employment generation technologies; toxic and pollution intensive processes and eco-friendly and benevolent
means of manufacture should be struck. It is easily said than done. Greedy few will try to keep ahead of the
competition by adopting means which may not be beneficial in the long run to the society. Only wise people can
mend the situation. The salvation of the humanity lies the way the learned persons act and how determined they
are to act judiciously.
The Right Way:
Some are prone to consume things like smoke and drinks knowingly fully well that they are injurious to mental and
physical health. Many tend to use, which are seemingly cheaper in cost not withstanding the fact that may be
harmful to the society including themselves. Cost is a relevant but a relative factor. Cost should always be judged
on the overall benefits that accrue to the society, which includes the user himself. Wisdom lies in the preferred
and compulsory purchase and use of a product like that of Handmade Paper which stands the rigorous tests of its
being Eco-Friendly; the best in Quality; as well as Utility and above all availability at an affordable cost.
Everybody has a right to choose a product, which is best in quality and utility and the cost. But when the cost is
not prohibitive and unjustified the wise people use only which is Eco-Friendly and beneficial to the common
welfare, whenever and wherever such a product is readily available. On the strength of this Acid test the
Handmade Paper comes out Victorious. Welcome to the world of Handmade Paper.
Let all of us become the active partners of the venture in saving our Planet from Apocalypse. We affirm that the
Cost and quality of Our Handmade Paper and Products stand every Test on any count favoring its preferred use.
This Earth in the whole of Universe is the only known Human Habitation. Life is full of contradictions. A cat’s
meat is the rat’s death. By harnessing Nature around him, man elevated himself from a wild animal’s ancestry to
the modern day Superman.
Denudation of natural wealth, suppression of the unfortunate majority of his kith and kin, polluting air, water and
land around him beyond limits, imbalancing the ecology by mindless destruction is now the source of present day’s
travails. Man undoubtedly is now the superman, master of all that he surveys, yet he is face to face with an
“Apocalypse”, on the brink of extinction of life itself.
This is not any pessimists prophecy. It is a fact borne out of bare factual scientific statistics. But by no means
we are at the end of the road. There is a way out only if we are determined to find one.
Whether we like it or not, the modern technologies with all its attendant ill effects can not be dispensed with. It
is impossible to put the clock back. One cannot reverse the facts of present generation. Fact remains that the
modern society now needs pragmatic coexistence of both the Sophisticated and the Traditional appropriate
technologies very wisely balanced. Churning of Nectar brings forth Poison too. The survival of humanity lies in
separating the poison and administering the Nectar.
A right balance between sophisticated technologies and traditional eco-friendly arts and crafts; automation and
employment generation technologies; toxic and pollution intensive processes and eco-friendly and benevolent
means of manufacture should be struck. It is easily said than done. Greedy few will try to keep ahead of the
competition by adopting means which may not be beneficial in the long run to the society. Only wise people can
mend the situation. The salvation of the humanity lies the way the learned persons act and how determined they
are to act judiciously.
The Right Way:
Some are prone to consume things like smoke and drinks knowingly fully well that they are injurious to mental and
physical health. Many tend to use, which are seemingly cheaper in cost not withstanding the fact that may be
harmful to the society including themselves. Cost is a relevant but a relative factor. Cost should always be judged
on the overall benefits that accrue to the society, which includes the user himself. Wisdom lies in the preferred
and compulsory purchase and use of a product like that of Handmade Paper which stands the rigorous tests of its
being Eco-Friendly; the best in Quality; as well as Utility and above all availability at an affordable cost.
Everybody has a right to choose a product, which is best in quality and utility and the cost. But when the cost is
not prohibitive and unjustified the wise people use only which is Eco-Friendly and beneficial to the common
welfare, whenever and wherever such a product is readily available. On the strength of this Acid test the
Handmade Paper comes out Victorious. Welcome to the world of Handmade Paper.
Let all of us become the active partners of the venture in saving our Planet from Apocalypse. We affirm that the
Cost and quality of Our Handmade Paper and Products stand every Test on any count favoring its preferred use.
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