Naheed Hafiz, who makes and sells handmade paper and runs '˜The Paper Shoppe' in the city, believes that there is a lot more awareness about handmade paper today Naheed Hafiz with her collection of ...
From IT’s vantage point—peering from behind our towering files of research notes and page proofs stuffed with mass-produced (recycled) paper—the notion of handmade paper has a distinct charm. So the ...
In Yangon's Dagon Seikkan township, a small workshop named La Min Eain is alive with quiet concentration as three artisans carefully paint animal figures made entirely from paper, working steadily to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here’s the plain and simple truth: I love to make things that would be easier to buy at the store. My days of yore as an intern at MOTHER EARTH NEWS are testament to this, as I blogged about topics ...
Paper making, an art medium found in many forms around the world, is an accessible craft for all ages and skillsets. “It’s a wonderful medium that can scale from beginning crafter to contemporary ...