Plantable Seed Paper Light Kraft Natural

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Plantable Paper is special handmade paper embedded with wildflower seeds. When the paper is planted in a pot of soil, wildflowers will grow from the paper. Plantable paper from Botanical PaperWorks is embedded with wildflower seeds. When you plant the paper in a pot of soil, the seeds will grow into colorful wildflowers. 

Please note that because our paper is made by hand there may be a slight variation in the thickness from sheet to sheet. Due to the 100% post-consumer waste fibre content a slight variation in the shade of the paper may also occur.

• Size Available – Width -11″ X Height – 17″

HOW DO YOU PLANT THE PLANTABLE SEED PAPER?
To plant Plantable seed paper, prepare a pot of soil or small patch of garden. Place plantable seed paper on top and cover with a thin layer of soil. Water well and give plenty of sunshine. Keep moist during germination.

WHAT SEEDS ARE CONTAINED IN THE PLANTABLE SEED PAPER?
Plantable seed paper contains the highest-quality mix of annuals and perennial seeds.

We recommend using these methods of printing:

• off-set printing
• ink jet printing
• screen printing
• letterpress printing

Before starting your print run, test your printer to ensure that you are getting the desired level of quality. We do not recommend printing on laser printers because the heat will kill the seeds.

WHAT KINDS OF PENS CAN BE USED ON THE PLANTABLE SEED PAPER?
The plantable paper is sufficiently water resistant for writing with most types of writing instruments, including calligraphy pens. You can test a new pen on the corner of a piece of paper to see if it bleeds.

IS THE SEED PAPER FRAGILE?
The handmade seed paper is specially made to be strong. A high-quality beating equipment is used, a custom-built press to bond fibers together and a special drying system to apply pressure to the paper for an additional 24 hours to complete the bonding of the fibers. These production steps produce a smooth, flat and strong piece of seed paper.

IS THE PLANTABLE PAPER TREE-FREE?
The seed paper is made with post consumer waste fibers, cotton remnants or abaca, a renewable leaf fiber.

HOW TO GET AMAZING PRINTING RESULTS?

• Design the piece to print text and simple images on a plain background.
• Avoid flooding the paper with ink.
• Because of the bumpy seeds, a wash of color over the entire piece will appear mottled.
• Due to the nature of the handmade paper, the printer must do the runs with plenty of ink coverage so that the text and graphics have rich color coverage.
• Note that heavier ink coverage will broaden the spectrum of color.
• For the best off-set printing registration results, use spot colors instead of CMYK.
• To ensure accurate alignment, we recommend printing 4-color jobs on a 4-colorpress, rather than doing two passes on a 2-color press.
• Avoid artwork with a rule line which tends to magnify any slight variation in registration.

Please send email to contactus@thegreenecostore.flywheelstaging.com for large or wholesale enquiries.