Photo Credit: Eva Kafle
Contemporary hand made lokta paper with pressed bougainvillea petals and ferns. Today, such lokta paper is used to make notebooks, envelopes, and greeting cards. For at least a few centuries till the mid-20th century, handmade lokta was essentially the only kind of paper available for writing. Administrative documents, ritual and scholarly manuscripts, and artisanal manuals were all handwritten on lokta.