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unusual facts about Bark paper


Bark paper

Dó paper, a paper traditionally produced in many villages in Vietnam.



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Amate

Painting on bark paper quickly spread to various villages in Guerrero and by the end of the 1960s, became the most important economic activity in eight Nahua villages Ameyaltepec, Oapan, Ahuahuapan, Ahuelican, Analco, San Juan Tetelcingo, Xalitla and Maxela.

San Pablito, Puebla

The area’s religious practices attracted researchers around the same time and the first Otomi bark paper sold to foreigners were in the form of cut outs by the shamans, to researchers such as Frederick Starr and Bodil Christensen who wrote about the manufacture and use of the paper.