Tapari, Duna and Bota Making Class
Are you looking for doing something new and memorable. We offer you Tapari, Duna and Bota making classes. Duna, Tapari and Bota are the disposable, multipurpose leaf plates and bowls made by stitching Saal ko Paat with a small bamboo sticks. Saal trees (Shorea Robusta) are most commonly found in the Terai regions of Nepal and are used for timber, fuel woods. The leaves are used for plates and animal feeds, while the seeds and fruits have Ayurvedic medicinal use. Nepalese use the fresh leaf plates and bowls for many occasions, including religious rituals, child's rice feeding ceremony, many festival feasts (bhoye), and marriage ceremony. The dry saal leaf plates are mostly used for picnics, restaurant use, village parties, and at the street food stalls as a disposable plates.
Tapari - is a lightly curved plate made by stitching several saal leaves together with a fine bamboo sticks (sinka). The shiny fresh green leaves are very flexible and have a lot of moisture, making it easy to twist, squeeze, and shape into plates without breaking the leaves.
Duna - is a medium-size bowl, either circular or rectangular and can be used to hold semi-liquid objects.
Bota - is usually made by using a single saal leaf, stitched together into small bowl.
