Tibetan Text Wind Horse Printed Prayer Flags

Lots of Positives...a little negative

I ordered a couple of strands of “cotton” windhorse prayer flags. The process was great... it was really neat to see the DHL shipping updates as these made there way from Kathmandu to Leipzig and on to the US. Upon arrival, the flags look great, the prints are crisp and clear, the colors are bright. They look like everything you would want out of prayer flags. The issue I have is that i specifically ordered the cotton flags over the synthetic flags so that when all of the prayers were spent I could (as recommended by monastics) burn the flags without causing toxic smoke. While the flags themselves are nice cotton, the rope that they hang on seems to be nylon which is a real bummer. I guess when it is time to dispose of them I will have to cut the flags off of the rope to burn the flags and throw the rope away which is certainly not the end of the world but it kind of defeats the purpose of cotton flags