Paisley Design Fold Down Gift Box - Natural

Our beautiful handmade gift boxes feature a stunning gold paisley pattern. Crafted by Fair Trade artisans from sustainable Lokta shrub, only azo-free dyes are used to create the 3 vibrant colours. The boxes are closed with a button & string type fastening and come supplied flat and so pop up into a box. The Lokta paper covers recycled paper card to give the boxes their structure. All the paper is Fair Trade and handmade in Nepal from Lokta, a plant native to the Himalayas. Dimensions: 18 x 18 x 5 cm All our gift boxes are handmade by Get Paper Industries (GPI), an incredible, socially aware cooperative in Nepal. The paper is made from the bark of the Lokta or Daphne papyracea plant, that grows in the foothills of the Himalayas. Mountain villagers trek to where the lokta grows, harvest it, then transport it back to the village. It is boiled, cleaned, then beaten with mallets to product the fibre pulp. It is then mixed with water and poured into a shallow floating frame made from bamboo poles stretched with canvas, then sun-dried to produce the crisp long fibres.