In the remote Vietnamese village of Suoi Co, a young woman with a vision is keeping an ancient tradition alive. On the veranda of a home in Suoi Co, a rural Vietnamese village about 45km southwest of ...
Many of us take what were once luxuries for granted – clean water from our taps, a warm bed or a hot meal, for example. So it may not cross our minds what a luxury commodity paper was only a few ...
Melany Prima-Boewer’s paper daisies, dahlias, peonies, and roses are well traveled: They’ve been used as home décor, in photo backdrops, and in weddings from coast to coast. Prima-Boewer is the owner ...
“Zines bring people to the table and they can move people beyond, toward action,” says Cynthia Hanifin, founder of Zine Club Chicago. Zines — small, handmade paper booklets — have been a staple in ...
Paper has been an intimate part of Japanese culture for more than a millennium. Handmade washi paper has a warm texture, as well as a resilience and durability that belie its remarkable thinness.
In one of the rooms of the Jungshi Handmade Paper Factory in Thimphu, Bhutan, Jamyang, 73, is hard at work. Sitting cross-legged against the wall, she deftly sorts boiled fibres of the daphne plant, a ...
Hilonee K Shah enjoys being in her small, “messy” studio attached to her home in Mattancherry. The well lit, verandah-like space is where she finds peace and solace, says Hilonee, who makes her ...
Two independent events are taking place at the Home for Cooperation, enriching January’s agenda. Arriving first is Process, an exhibition by Feza Aygın Sanıvar with handmade paper crafted from Cypriot ...