Papermaking, designed by Cai Lun, is one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China. However, fewer and fewer people are practicing the handicraft. During the papermaking process, draining the ...

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 ...

In ANTIQUES ROADSHOW's Junk in the Trunk 3, Francis Wahlgren appraises a 1923 first edition of 'Old Papermaking,' by Dard Hunter — the first completely handmade book about making books by hand. The ...

Like the healing process for trauma, making paper requires breaking something down in order to create something new and beautiful. Peace Paper Project, a New York-based nonprofit art therapy ...

Yiliang county in Southwest China's Yunnan province has kept a traditional papermaking handicraft with the raw material of tree bark. Producing a traditional handmade paper includes 72 individual ...

This workshop is the 101 of handmade paper! Journey through the process of papermaking from raw materials to hand pulled sheets of paper. Come and explore the basics of traditional European-style ...

Two men collected more than 500 types of traditional handmade paper across China in an effort to promote the valuable ancient creation to more people A lantern and a vase decorated with handmade paper ...

The town of Sanganer, located in the western state of Rajasthan in India, is home to a 500-year-old papermaking industry. The paper factories in Sanganer still produce handmade paper the traditional ...

Kashmir’s handmade paper industry traces its origins to Samarkand, once a flourishing centre of papermaking in Central Asia. The craft arrived there in the eighth century when Chinese prisoners of war ...

Paper factories in Sanganer, India, still produce each sheet one by one. Papermaking communities, called kagzis, came to India in the 16th century. The industry has since withstood colonization and ...