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The Yak & Yeti Journal. Notes for the buyers we supply: how we work, how the goods are made, and what is worth knowing before you order.

Hand-painted boxes, a silver cuff, turquoise bead necklaces and a carved crystal elephant from the Yak & Yeti wholesale range

How a wholesale order works, from enquiry to carton

What happens after you send us an enquiry: minimum order quantities, samples, putting your own branding on the goods, and how they are packed and shipped out of Kathmandu.

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Five Yak & Yeti artisans assembling lined rice-paper boxes by hand in the Kathmandu workshop

What our Fair Trade membership commits us to

Buyers are asked to account for how their stock is made more often than they used to be. Here is what our Fair Trade Group Nepal membership actually commits us to, in terms you can pass on.

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Yak & Yeti artisans at the workshop bench with lokta-covered boxes and cylinders

Lokta paper goods: the frames, boxes and cards, and what to specify

Listed on this site as Rice Paper Goods, the line is made from lokta - Nepali handmade paper. What is in the range, and the details worth naming when you place the order.

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