Mulberry paper is made from Mulberry tree, the medium size tree that always growing in the Northern of Thailand, especially damp soil near rivers or canals.
Now, let us show you step by step for mulberry paper making...
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Step 1 : To make the mulberry paper, we have to use a lot of mulberry bark. We will hit, crushed and boil the mulberry bark in alkali water to detach their tissues. After detaching, tissues are washed with fresh water several times to clean out alkali. |
| Step 2 : Put the mulberry tissues into the tank that full of water, stir and hit the tissues until they become small pieces. After that weight the mulberry tissue as the quantity that is suitable for making one sheet mulberry paper. Wow!! Every sheet will have the same quality. |
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| Step 3 : Put mulberry tissue in the frame that is in the water, spread mulberry tissue throughout the frame and decorate with fresh leaves and petals. Then lift up the frame from the water and dry each sheet with sunshine. |
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Step 4 : Remove mulberry paper from frame and dry again with sunshine. Yeh!! Getting the splendid mulberry papers, keeping them in stock and waiting for packing process. |
Note : For other colors handmade paper, we will mix color when we stir the mulberry tissue in Step 2. |
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