Chinese Pergament Production

Let's see this production report and try to guess, what does this present?
A small hint, the action takes place in Bhutan, well, we have an idea?

This substance is in the foreground - stalks cane, the raw source for paper production. Cane stalks cooked in pots until yet turn into a sticky, fibrous mass. Then a wooden mallet cellulose pulp is split into even smaller fibers, and then passed on to stage.

Female labor, endless and honorable. At this stage the cane is more like a thin, gray spaghetti. In Bhutan, fed a delicious and much, because the first association in the form of this scene was something like this: "Eastern Market, a store of Korean pickled delicacies. And the second thought: "but why hands?". The problem of women - to understand the reeds on the individual fibers and remove debris.

And we go further. Split fibers are loaded into a vat filled with water and petals. In the hands of workers stretched thin mat on the frame, they scraped reed-flower porridge. Bhutanese women have tried to glory: if you omit the water arm, grab the mass is almost impossible. At the touch of a soft, thin seaweed. Petals add more for reasons of aesthetics: insertions in the paper fragments of wild flowers - it's beautiful.

After about thirty seconds of water flows, and is based on a thin layer of something resembling a wet cotton wool.

Paper blanks stacked "pancakes" and leave it for several hours so that the water completely of glass. Enjoy lunch or something ... Only at this stage I was associated with Carnival? :)

In his spare time, every fun as it may ...

Simple paper-and-a-flower "- this is boring, because local craftsmen distorted, cooking whole composite panels, laying out ornaments from the branches, stems and buds.

Final stage. Those in the Soviet era in photography, mindful of the cherished dream of every photographer - Gloss! Prints impose the exposed side of the hot metal mirror and pressed a cloth and a few minutes lost the card itself - dry and glossy. I am in my childhood was different looks and with a crash tore them ... HeG. Here, a similar situation: wet "pancakes" is placed upon the surface of iron dryer, and then harvest in the tray.

 The output is approximately the product. Painted paper just around the corner, but that's another story:)