In Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, the town of Kalpi has built a distinctive handmade paper industry where discarded fabric waste is turned into thick, textured sheets used in everyday products. File ...

Kids, especially preschoolers, will enjoy these simple, creative Earth Day crafts to learn more about the planet. Many can ...

When Janice went on holiday to Zimbabwe in 2008, she discovered handmade paper products with texture and colors she had never seen before. She immediately contacted their maker, Walter Ruprecht, who ...

The women stand by a small cement water tank. They work together, transferring thin layers of the watery pulp onto mesh squares. Occasionally, small, white kohomba flowers from tree branches above ...

You may have just found out the “truth” about paper cups and straws—some are actually embedded with plastic because paper by itself is not durable enough especially with water—and are probably ...

Just in time for holiday shopping season, I’m going to give you the rundown of the stack of books that landed in my review pile. This time I have recommendations for serious crafters, those who like ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Handmade paper animal figures at a workshop in Yangon, Myanmar. - Xinhua YANGON: In Yangon's Dagon Seikkan township, a small workshop named La Min Eain is alive with quiet concentration as three ...