PAPER LANTERNS

If you are interested in buying any of these paper lanterns by mail order please contact us by phone 0115 9382394, or by e-mail to confirm that the item is in still stock. Postage and packaging is £1.50 per paper lantern.

These paper lanterns are made in northern Thailand from traditional Mulberry paper. This paper is made from bark shed by the Sa or Mullberry tree anually, a non destructive technique used for hundreds of years.

As well as paper lanterns made from Mulberry paper we also stock hand made cards also made from Mulberry paper, as well as large sheets of Mulberry paper.
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Paper lanterns poem

The paper lantern eating phantom
in the brightening light did slantern
eyes against the glittering glow
of lanterns in the paper snow.
A thousand paper lantenrs burning
the phantom's hungry mouth a yearning,
a thousand paper lanterns shining
the phantom on his feast is dinning.
Paper lanterns made from Mulberry
go down well with wine or sherry.
Paper lanterns made of Sa
bon appetite mine host mine Tsar.
Against the darkening sky and lands
a fine fat figure squatly stands,
munching on the lone last lantern
- the paper lantern eating phantom.


N.B The paper lanterns shown above are not edible. Please do not attempt to imitate the paper lantern eating pahntom with any of the paper lanterns shown in Roots Emporium's paper lanterns gallery.

Miscellaneous links for paper lanterns.

If you are on our paper lanterns page looking for the chords to the song paper lanterns by the band Green Day, well you are in the wrong place. To look for a variety of sources for chords or tabs for paper lanterns by Green Day you might try tabrobot.com, or click this link Green Day - Paper lanterns. If very short stories concerning paper lanterns rather than songs about paper lanterns are more your bag you might try Red paper lanterns by Nicholas Yee.

Maybe you are looking for a paper lantern pattern to make your own paper lanterns, in which case try these links. The first is a paper lanterns pattern is fairly simple and can be found on kidsdomain.com, while the second paper lanterns pattern is a rather more complicated paper lantern at learninghaven.com. This third link is basically the same design as the first at parents.org.co.uk as is the fourth at kinderplanet.com.

Paper lanterns are featured in a number of festivals throughout east Asia some ancient some more modern, like that in Hiroshima where paper lanterns are floated down the river in front of the atomic bomb dome.