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 ...

What’s the co-founder of The Southern Letter Press doing teaching a class at the New Orleans Botanical Garden on Saturday? “I love doing anything I can to encourage people to start thinking about ...

Zarina’s prints, created with woodcuts on handmade Indian paper, bring to mind for me worn-down maps. That comparison makes sense given the artist’s own meandering background; Zarina Hashmi (her full ...

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 ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Todd Bishop on Aug 11, 2012 at 3:12 pm July 13, 2018 at 4:18 pm A ...

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 ...

It once stood as a testimony to the glory of India's cottage industry. Until recently, it was an exporter of handmade papers to 75 countries. PUNE: It once stood as a testimony to the glory of India's ...