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Barrel cooking of daphne fibers

Carrying wood though through foot-hills to use to cook fibers for papermaking

Washing the fibrous inner bark of daphne

Harvesting daphne fiber for papermaking

Drying sheets of handmade paper dot the Nepali landscape

Large astrological chart made with local mountain paper most likely dried on cloth

Back of scroll, close-up, showing crude fibrous paper

Example of decorated astrological scrolls once commonly made for every infant

Man demonstrates how local pundits pounded plant fibers to make crude paper for astrologic scrolls

Forester Gunga Singh demonstrates the flexible fibers of the daphne plant used in Himalayan papermaking