Writing on Sheep Poo Paper
Would you write on paper knowing it was made from poop? Specifically sheep poop?
It’s actually fascinating piece of work. Sheep Poo Paper is a company based in Wales which makes beautiful handcrafted papers derived and recycled from sheep dung. It may sound so bad but it actually isn’t. The company has everything you’d need, paper-wise, like greeting cards, custom printed stationery, bookmarkers, envelopes, wedding invites and many more.
The site features a section on how the papers are actually made, which really helps buyers understand the product they are buying.
Excerpts from the process:
“The sheep poo we have collected is completely sterilized by boiling it in a specially designed pressure cooker at over 120 degrees centigrade (using only the purest Welsh mountain water, of course) and then washed repeatedly over a period of days until it has lost approximately half its original weight (Sheep Fact: a sheep only digests 50% of the cellulose fibers it eats).
The washing process produces a big pile of usable fibers and, as a by-product it also produces a clean, sterile, rich, liquid fertilizer which we store in a tank at the mill and pass on to local growers.
Using only traditional papermaking techniques we then form the pulp into sheets using special sieves (called a “mould and deckle”) and lay them out in stacks using felt in between each sheet to keep them from sticking together.”
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