Make a sheet of Dongba paper in a Naxi courtyard on Wuyi Street
Wangjiazhuang Lane, Wuyi Street, Lijiang Old Town
Naxi Dongba paper is made from the bark of a mountain shrub that grows above 2,000 m, in some 35 steps from stripping and boiling the bark to drying the sheets, and the craft is on China's national heritage list. At the Shoudao Lijiang folk handicraft museum, the workshop of papermaker He Xiuchang, who learned from his father, you tread a wooden pestle to pound the cooked bark, stir the pulp, lift a sheet on the screen and paste it up to dry. Most people finish their own sheet in a little over an hour.
What locals sayPeople who try it say the steps are simple and hands-on, and they like leaving with something they made themselves rather than another shop souvenir.
- Time
- 1–1.5 hours · Daytime
- In Chinese
- 手道丽江 东巴造纸
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