Photo: Pounding out the paper pulp.

By N. Chrystine Olson
Uploaded on 12 March 2008
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Pounding out the paper pulp.

A Malagasy woman starts the paper making process with pressure and patience.

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Photo Essay: Making Paper the Madagascar Way
The process of making paper in a quiet mountain town in central Madagascar is slow, careful and natural, much like the country's motto, "Mora. Mora." (which means "Slowly. Slowly").