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Why Use Handmade Paper

Handmade paper has the advantage of being 100% wood free which makes it the most eco-friendly form of paper around. It is also 100% recycled. Handmade paper is excellent for writing as well as printing. It has greater tensile, bursting, tearing and double-fold strength compared to conventional paper. Apart from all this it looks great, handmade paper is fashionable, its up market, its classy! Our papers can be decorated with flower petals, jute, wool, grass, straw etc. Handmade paper seems to be the perfect thing to have come around in terms of environment friendliness. There are no chemicals used in the manufacture of our handmade paper. The paper is solar dried, so no energy wastage. No trees are cut to make such paper, the pulp used to make the paper is derived from Cotton Fabric Rags, this makes it 100% eco-friendly and 100% natural. So handmade paper cuts down on pollution, its saves trees (and wildlife) thus contributing to a much healthier environment.

FACT

One ton of

mill made paper

cost the earth

270 trees or

400 bamboo plants.

If its so perfect, why isn't everyone using it?

Handmade paper does turn out to be a little more expensive compared to mill made paper because its not mass-produced by machines like conventional paper. There is a greater cost involved in the long run when using mill made paper - somebody has to pay for all those trees being cut down and the damage being done to the environment.
Our Forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate - trees are being felled by the millions to satisfy our need for wood and paper.

Global rates of destruction of forests

2.4 Acres every second - equivalent to 2 football fields.

149 Acres per minute

2,14,000 acres per day, an area larger than New York City

78 Million acres per year, an area larger than Poland.

An estimated 137 species of life forms are driven to extinction each day or 50,000 a year.

HARD FACTS

	One-third of the world's people depend on wood for fuel as a significant energy source (Dudley et. al. 1995).
	Trees protect the soil against erosion and reduce the risks of landslides and avalanches. They may increase the rate that rainwater recharges groundwater as well as control the rate that water is released in watersheds (FAO 1993). They help to sustain freshwater supplies and therefore are an important factor in the availability of one of life's basic needs.
	"Recent reports by the World Resources Institute have shown that more than 80% of the planet's natural forests have already been destroyed" (Hatch 1997).
	Deforestation can cause the climate to become more extreme in nature; the occurrence and strength of floods and droughts could increase.
	Forests store large amounts of carbon that are released when trees are cut or burned. It is projected that deforestation and the burning of biomass will be responsible for fifteen percent of the greenhouse effect between 1990 and 2025 (FAO 1993).
	Logged. Still, with all the present and predicted problems, it was estimated that one acre of Canadian forest was logged every 12.9 seconds in 1995 (McCrory et. al. 1997).

Handmade paper is a solution to solve all our environment related problems - Its paper that doesn’t utilize wood for its manufacture - is free from all chemicals, and is dried using the most eco-friendly means of energy - solar energy The pulp used to create handmade paper is made from cotton fabric rags - the creation of the paper involves recycling of cloth and apart from this the paper itself is recyclable.

The qualities that make “Handmade” Paper very popular are:

	Handmade using Renewable sources (Cotton Rags)
	Recycled
	Eco-Friendly
	Non-Toxic
	Non-Absorbent (Ink doesn’t blot or spread)
	Printable (Inkjet & others) etc.

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