The most beautiful selection of handmade amate paper (Mexican bark paper).

Created by hand in Otimi villages, each sheet of amate paper is already a unique piece of art.

Amatl (from the Nahuatl "paper") or Amate (Spanish) is a type of paper developed in Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. The paper is made by boiling the inner bark of several species of fig trees (genus Ficus) and pounding the resulting fibers with a stone.

The paper is light brown with corrugated lines. It is stretchy and delicate.

Amate paper is ideal for paintings, crafts, invitations, cards, decoration and bookbinding.

Concordance of Amate Painters