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Why Print Green with Of The Earth?
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Several Choices
Dedication to customer service is our #1 priority, and we like to carry out much of that tradition through affordable and professional custom design jobs for our clients. From durable lotka boxes to elegant gift boxes and brochures, we are dedicated to providing the absolute best in earth friendly, environmentally conscious and recycled paper products. Some of our most popular custom orders include:
• Business Cards
• Invitations
• Flyers
• Holiday Cards
• Brochures
• Hang Tags
• Programs
• Post Cards
• Menus
Custom Handmade Paper
Our handmade paper is custom made to your specifications. We can match your colors, location or theme by altering the combination of flowers. Choose from our wide selection or bring your own ideas. Each order is tailored to your needs.
What Our Clients Say About Us
We measure our success by the feedback we receive. Each year we collect and share what our customers have to say about their wedding invitation experience. Click here to view their comments.
Soy Ink Printing
Digital, offset, or lithography printing is now available. Four color process and full bleed capable with soy inks if you choose. You can now have custom printing done on our complete line of papers. This includes the seeded sheets. From invitations to large quantity brochures, we are prepared to provide you with the best printing on tree free or recycled papers, while keeping to our mission of being earth friendly. Printing can be done by us or with our team of professionals. We are happy to ship our papers direct to your local printer as well. For home printing we suggest purchasing our handmade computer paper as it is universally accepted. Just email us your needs or call us to find out your options. Below are the stock papers you can choose from. Ingredients or colors can be customized to meet your specific needs. All papers are priced as shown with our wildflower seed mix. Just plant the paper in soil, keep moist, provide sun, and flowers will bloom. Quantity discounts are given.
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Printed with 4 color process, full bleed, digital and letterpress. |
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| At Of The Earth, we believe that a good thing should never go to waste. Why throw away perfectly good paper when it can bloom into something beautiful? All of our cotton and lotka seeded paper products are imbedded with one of several varieties of wildflower seed mix that will eventually blossom into a dazzling display of color! We are proud to offer our 100% recycled, lotka, and handmade cotton papers in both seeded and non-seeded varieties in several weights to choose from depending on your printing needs. |
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Two Print Options:
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Of The Earth
We are proud to offer our in-house printing services to fit most applications, our services currently include black ink laser printing and two color screen printing. |
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Environmental Paper & Print
We have teamed up with Environmental Paper & Print to provide you with the ultimate in Green printing. Environmental Paper & Print uses every measure to recycle, and conserve energy. Soy inks are also available for your corporate printing needs.
Moquin Press
Moquin Press is a leader in the field of quality printing, we are happy to recommend their superior services.
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An example of a lotka seeded paper tag that has been vegetable dyed with screen printing.
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| We include your choice of seeds or flower ingredients for custom runs. Click here |
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| Screen-printed seed paper tags with lotka twine. |
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This picture shows one week of growth of our seed paper indoors under a grow light (watered several times a day). |
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Our eco-friendly paper production explained.
The raw material LOTKA is the skin of the daphne plant - a sapling stick of about 5 to 7 feet in height. The best quality daphne stick usually grows and exists at an altitude of 6000 to 10000 feet over the highlands of Nepal. Dashain (October) signals the beginning of Lotka collection. it is harvested like the sugar-cane stick by cutting it on the stem, about 5cm (2 inches) above ground level. The plant then naturally starts the regeneration process and begins to grow a new plant. The daphne stick if not extracted from the forest in its ideal maturity fades, dries up and decays within a couple of months due to heavy rains and high heat. Thus, by harvesting the daphne stick, neither the forest is destroyed nor is there harm to the environment.
The Lotka skin layer is set apart from the main daphne stick and the remaining naked stick is dried in the hot sun for a few days and used for fueling the production plant. No part is left to waste. After the collection of it, the Lotka tapes are tied up into small bundles and soaked in water for at least 4 to 5 hours to soften the skin. It is then process by hand to create a Lotka pulp. Lotka pulp is then poured into a frame and placed in the sun for drying. The drying time of the paper depends upon its thickness and surface temperature. It takes about 1 to 2 hours in an average Autumn/Winter sun to dry. Paper sheets are then removed from the frames and placed in the factory for storage or further manufacturing into items such as boxes, cards, envelopes, and stationary.
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Custom printed bookmarks, like seeds of knowledge are planted. Spread your message with a green idea. |
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Hard Cover Paper Sample Book
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4"x6" Seed Paper Sample Book
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Contains 8.5"x11" sample sheets of all of our seed papers in light and heavy weights, also includes samples of our most popular wrapping paper styles.
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Packaged in a convienent folder, our 4"x6" sample book contains seed paper, colored paper, and wrapping paper samples.
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