How Handmade paper is made in Bhutan

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Jungshi means 'Natural'. The handmade paper making begins to find its place as the most important part of Bhutanese culture and tradition. The paper making first began as a domestic occupation and still preserved to this day. In the year 1990 the Government, Ministry of Trade and Industry established the jungshi Handmade paper factory to act as a key pilot to safe guard the old traditional of hand made paper making in Bhutan and expand its market for commercial purpose. In 1992 the factory was privatized under the sole proprietorship of Mr. Norbu Tenzin, who is trained and sent as missionary in Shimane Prefecture, Japan for high for quality and designing of Bhutanese traditional handmade paper for International market. • Today the company has wide range markets outside country like USA, Japan, Europe, India and Nepal. • Raw Materials Used • 1. Bark from Daphne Papyriera sief-Thymalae-ceae (3000 ft and above) • 2. Edgeworthia Papyri era sief plant (Japanese -Misumata) bark. • (1500M and below) • 3. Nature given flora as additional go between ingredients like flowers, leaves, ferns leaves etc for making decorative design paper. • Paper Making Process • 1. Soaking of Daphne Bark in the water. • 2. Boiling • 3. Washing the cooked barks nicely. • 4. Cleaning (sorting fine fibers from the bad fibers) • 5. Crushing/Pounding into a pulp • 6. Mixing of pulp with water and vegetable starch (Hibisus plant root) in vat. • 7. Using a wooden frame and bamboo screen filter out a thin layer of pulp on the screen and pile it up on the paper bed. • 8. Compressing the whole pile up paper to squeeze out the water. • 9. The final process is drying by putting the sheet one by one on the smooth board. • 10. Sorting out the final handmade paper from rejected ones. • Paper Products • 1. Photo album • 2. Journals • 3. Greeting cards • 4. Envelope • 5. Writing paper • 6. Wrapping paper • 7. Paper bags • 8. Gift sets, etc • This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... • Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! • Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and [email protected] • To SUBSCRIBE click the below link: • www.youtube.com/subscription_center?a... • Like Follow Us on: • Facebook: www.facebook.com/WildernessFilmsIndiaLimited • Website: www.wildfilmsindia.com

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