KUNMING — In a small village in Yunnan province, a crystal-clear stream has been more than just a source of water for generations — it has been the lifeblood of an ancient paper-making tradition. When ...

Start by collecting all the old papers that you have, from unimportant letters to old projects that are kept aside gathering dust. Look for papers in newspaper, magazines, office paper, and the likes, ...

Villagers promote handmade paper products in Mangtuan on March 4. XINHUA KUNMING — In a small village in Yunnan province, a crystal-clear stream has been more than just a source of water for ...

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 ...

The studio at the Morgan Conservatory, with natural light coming through the garage doors (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) Finished sheets of handmade kozo paper in the conservatory’s ...

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 ...

For 24-year-old Nima Tsering, the charms of a metropolis where most of his peers from a hamlet in Arunachal Pradesh have migrated in search of greener pastures hold no allure. The preservation and ...

The efforts to revive a 1,000-year-old handmade paper-making craft of Arunachal Pradesh’s Monpa community has received further boost with the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) making the ...

Documents and records are one of the most tangible creations of medieval ages that provide us crucial evidence to understand various aspects of administration and governance of bygone days. State ...