Sunrise at the Raj Palace Hotel in Jaipur |
Our sleeping quarters at the Raj Palace |
So that we remember our doors with the very large padlocks... |
The musician from breakfast... |
Lord Ganush, the most important God in the Hindu religion |
The entry of the Raj Palace Hotel |
The first step in the paper-making process. Scraps of cotton (discarded waste from textile companies) are cut into very small pieces. |
After the cotton is soaked and beaten to a pulp, these screens are used to form the paper sheets |
Viewing some of the drying paper (the hanging clothes are not part of the process!) |
Decorated paper that's hanging to dry |
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This is a better picture of how the pulp (on the right) is scooped into water and then spread over these screens to form the paper sheets. |