Episode 12: How to Traditionally Wrap Manuscripts in Lokta Paper - Dr. Bidur Bhattarai - University of Hamburg
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19.08.2024
Episode 12: How to Traditionally Wrap Manuscripts in Lokta Paper
The video series on the ‘Written Artefacts of Nepal – Preservation and Documentation’ shows how valuable manuscripts can be cared for, and how they should be stored and protected in order to preserve them. Episode 11 showed how the manuscripts can be cleaned to protect them from dust. But cleaning alone is not enough, as the new episode shows. After cleaning, the manuscripts should be wrapped in a piece of locally-produced acid-free lokta paper. Wrapping the manuscript in this paper adds an extra layer of protection, buffering the fragile manuscript edges. Moreover, the wrapping gives support to loosely bound sheets of the manuscript or sheets that have not been bound at all.
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This preservation work is a collaborative effort of the CSMC and the Central Department of Nepalbhasa at Tribhuvan University. It is part of the project ‘Preserving the Written Cultural Heritage of Nepal’, which was generously supported by the German Foreign Office and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
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This series of short films offers brief and accessible introduction to Nepalese written artefacts, exploring their diversity and uniqueness in terms of writing, supports, materials, forms, and texts. It is initiated and produced by Dr Bidur Bhattarai, Coordinator of the project ‘Preserving the Written Artefacts of Nepal’ based at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at Universität Hamburg. The project is generously supported by the German Foreign Office and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
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