Why This Japanese Factory Refuses to Make Notebooks Faster
DAIGO has been making diaries and planners in Japan since 1944. At their factory in Nara, more than a hundred people turn sheets of paper into notebooks using Ito Toji,…
DAIGO has been making diaries and planners in Japan since 1944. At their factory in Nara, more than a hundred people turn sheets of paper into notebooks using Ito Toji,…
A traditional dyehouse, Fez hats, and a thousand-year-old ancient hieroglyphs carving method have nearly disappeared in Egypt in recent decades. But five artisans are determined to keep their traditions alive.…
Nature, space, algorithms, and more serve as inspiration for artists connecting their work to the world around them, from the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico to the computer science…
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Cory Morrison transforms locally harvested grass into handmade paper using a DIY pulp process.
Made on one of only 3 machines left in Japan
via aubreynile
from a single sheet of paper
If you lived in 16th-century London, would you have any idea what was happening in Paris, Venice or Frankfurt? Well, yes, according to Joad Raymond Wren – and that news…
From The Art of Paper Craft by Helen Hiebert