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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 24-year-old Nima Tsering, the charms of a metropolis where most of his peers from a hamlet in Arunachal Pradesh have migrated in search of greener pastures hold no allure. The preservation and ...

Start by collecting all the old papers that you have, from unimportant letters to old projects that are kept aside gathering dust. Look for papers in newspaper, magazines, office paper, and the likes, ...