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Our friends with the ninja driving skills, rikshaw driver Sabhir and his friends, took us to see a paper factory he thought we might like. He was right, too - amazing to watch them making really thick heavyweight or incredibly light and fragile paper. Much of it had petals or pieces of fabric mashed into the paper, and then a great deal was beautifully block printed with intricate patterns. I bought about twenty sheets in the end, (at a total cost of about £2.30) but like a loon managed to leave them in our hotel when we left for Rajasthan.
Still, a nifty place.
The factory was originally established in 1909 to produce the tissue paper used to wrap the oranges produced in the region. It closed in 2001.
You can see information about the Taragram paper factory and a photo I took of another Taragram worker at www.flickr.com/photos/42199523@N08/4311813510/