Mini Speckle - Midnight Blue Size:500x750 approx (deckled edge) 435 x 685mm / 80gsm

435 x 685mm / 80gsm / no grain direction

active in Bassano from 1657 to 1861

Coated in wax this robust lokta paper has an aged leathery look

This shade is a good match for matching slightly acidic endpapers or for bookpaper repairs

This paper is unbleached and instead lightened using the 'gas sarashi' method

Mini Speckle - Midnight Blue Size:500x750 approx (deckled edge) 435 x 685mm / 80gsmThese wonderful Lokta papers are handmade, & screen printed in the old fashioned way in the Kathmandu valley in Nepal. Made from the bark of a special mulberry bush (within 5 7 years the bush will regrow its branches). The bark is peeled, beaten and cooked until it becomes smooth. Then beaten once more and cut up by machine into small pieces which creates the paper pulp. This is "dissolved" in a large water tank into which the mould for the sheet is