The centuries old history of the production of nepali paper dates back to the second century B. C., when papermaking was invented by T’sai Lun or one of his predecessors at the Chinese court. Nearly a millenium later, the knowledge of the production of paper out of the bark of Daphne papyracaea reached the High Himalayas via Tibet. There paper was produced from the ninth until the midst of our century.

Under the impact of changing political powers in Tibet, a new Forest Act in Nepal and the increasing import of industrially produced cheap paper from other countries, the traditional production of nepali paper seemed to come to a standstill in the beginning of the 1960′s.