This is the absolute truth: Creative Paper takes great care to collect super-fresh sheep poo from the rainy mountains of rural Wales and take it back to the mill in southern Snowdonia. A new grade of paper begins with only the very finest materials, and they make other papers using waste paper, rag and textile off-cuts, and just about anything else that has good length cellulose fibers in it. They don't use trees—they say they like trees. But they do use sheep poo.

The sheep poo is sterilized by boiling it in a specially-designed pressure cooker at over 120º centigrade (using only the purest Welsh mountain water, of course) and then washed repeatedly over a period of days until it has lost approximately half its original weight. A sheep only digests 50 percent of the cellulose fibers it eats. Why you need the purest water I am not sure.

The washing process produces a pile of usable fibers and, as a by-product it also produces a clean, sterile, rich, liquid fertilizer which they store in a tank at the mill and pass on to local growers. It takes many hours to beat the cellulose fiber until it reduces to a pulp suitable for making paper. This process is a closely guarded secret. The Chinese are said to be interested in paper made from yak poo. Using only traditional papermaking techniques they then form the pulp into sheets using special sieves (called a "mould and deckle") and lay them out in stacks using felt in between each sheet to keep them from sticking together.