Papermakers can also learn to harvest kozo and process it into beautiful, gossamer paper, becoming a modern link in a centuries-old papermaking tradition. Kozo is a relative of the mulberry tree.

There remains a vast gulf of feeling and meaning between a mailed thank-you note written by hand on paper made from the pulp of the kozo tree — a type of mulberry tree — in a laborious process ...

During the environmentally-friendly process, locally grown kozo is harvested in winter, the outer bark steamed off, the fibres boiled, beaten by hand, mixed with mucilage in water, and then filtered ...