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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For the preservation and revival of a thousand-year-old paper-making craft, Arunachal Pradesh's Monpa tribe are looking up to e-platforms. The preservation and revival of a thousand-year-old ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What was an emerald-green linen bedsheet, after being beaten for a few hours in a bucket of water, has turned to a verdant, ...

Paper-making technology was learned by the Arab from Chinese prisoners who were captured in attack on Samarkand in 751 CE. This art of paper making eventually spread across Europe and India in the ...