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Karatasi Studio

Transform Your Space Into a Living Archive of Myths from Around the World

Transform shared spaces into environments of curiosity, reflection, and discovery. Karatasi Studio creates participatory self-led storytelling experiences. We bring myths, legends, and folktales into physical spaces where people sit, pause, wait, and rest.

Visitors encounter stories through artefacts, books, and creative prompts, interact with soundscapes, and engage in storytelling activities. These experiences are reflective, playful, and meaningful, inspiring imagination, creativity, and cultural learning.

Three Ways People Experience The Stories

Karatasi creates a layered storytelling ecosystem where stories can be encountered, explored, and experienced.

People can spend a few minutes encountering a story, exploring soundscapes, and participate in creative writing.

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Story Encounters: Living Legends

Living Legends is a participatory storytelling experience that brings myths, legends, and folktales from around the world into physical spaces.

Spaces become environments where visitors can pause, explore stories, and contribute to a shared archive of imagination. Your space becomes a living archive of myth, imagination, and community contributions.

Explore Myths and Folktales

Each artefact introduces myths and folktales through short retellings, glimpses into the places and traditions where the stories originate.

Community Book

Weaved within the artefact are invitations for reflection, art, and creative writing. Visitors can write reflections, draw, or respond to prompts in a community book, creating an evolving archive of stories.

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Build Community

Turn your spaces into living archives of myths, legends, and folktales that grow over time through community engagement, imagination, and shared creativity.

A Transformative Learning Experience

A Guided Storytelling Experience Delivered By Post

Stories In Motion is a guided storytelling experience that invites you to engage deeply with myths, legends, and folktales from around the world through a layered, guided storytelling journey.

The Experience: Guided Cycles

Each cycle and edition expands the stories through deeper reflection, creative exploration, and learning.

Handmade Storybook

A beautifully bound storybook with global myths and folktales. Some stories are complete, while others are open-ended, inviting you to continue and expand them in your own way.

Learning & Creative Practice

Discover cultural, ecological, and geographic insights hidden beneath the stories. Each narrative becomes a doorway to learning, imagination, and deeper understanding.

Ecology & Place-Based Exploration

Stories connect to landscapes, environments, and cultural knowledge, encouraging exploration of place and ecology.

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Digital Extensions

Audio stories, soundscapes, and visual materials that enhance the story experience.

Myths Legends & Folktales

A Self-Guided, Immersive Storytelling Journey

A limited-edition, handmade book that invites you to explore myths, legends, and folktales from around the world through a reflective, hands-on creative journey. Each edition is designed to be read, written in, explored, and returned to over time.

Each storybook is a portal to a world of imagination, an entry point into a multi-layered storytelling journey

Handmade Storybook

Each edition is crafted on fibrous, eco-friendly paper and released in limited numbers. The book is designed to be touched, explored, and kept.

Read, Reflect, Create

Stories include spaces for annotation, drawing, and creative writing, allowing readers to actively engage with the narrative.

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Multimedia Story Extensions

Digital elements such as audio stories and soundscapes deepen the storytelling experience beyond the page.

Storytelling & Bookmaking Workshops

Bringing Stories to Life Through Making and Imagination

We work with libraries, schools, festivals, and community organisations to bring myths, legends, and folktales to life through hands-on storytelling and bookmaking experiences.

Storytelling

Participatory storytelling sessions designed for groups, schools, libraries, and cultural organisations. These experiences introduce participants to myths, folktales, and legendary beings while encouraging creative exploration through writing, drawing, storytelling, and imagination.

Hands-On Bookmaking

Using printed story pages and fibrous paper, participants learn simple bookbinding techniques and bind their own handmade book.

Touch & Material Exploration

The fibrous paper invites tactile engagement, encouraging participants to experience storytelling through texture, making, and craft.

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Membership

Access to all Karatasi Studio experiences and products requires membership. Membership allows us to:

Maintain consistent pricing for all members.
Plan small-batch production of handmade paper creations from waste-based fibres.
Support our artisan collaborators and ongoing material experimentation within the Collective.

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Partnerships & Collaboration

Organisations, schools, and community groups can partner with us to:

Run workshops and immersive experiences.
Co-create programs that integrate storytelling, imagination, and nature.
Provide educational and community engagement resources.
Share our handmade storybooks and creative frameworks with wider audiences.

Storytelling and Cultural Experiences

How do I access my account?

To access your account, click Sign In at the top right of the page and enter your email address. You can request a sign-in link be sent to your email address to sign in without the need for your password or you can enter your password without requesting a sign-in link.

How do I reset my password?

On the Sign In page, click Sign in with password and then click on set new password, enter the email associated with your account, and click Send Instructions. The instruction email will arrive in your inbox shortly. In the email, click Reset Password, and you will be directed to select a new password before being redirected to the catalog page. If you have trouble remembering your password, you can also use our Passwordless Sign-In option by requesting a Sign-In Link on the login page.

How do I access the catalog?

Once you sign into your account, navigate the Catalog section (or equivalent section name) in the top menu to access all of our videos.

Can I download videos to save them to my device?

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How do I pause or cancel my recurring subscription?

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How do I redeem a gift subscription?

To redeem a gift subscription, use the link shared with you by the gift sender. Clicking the link will automatically apply the gift to your account. If you don’t already have an account, you’ll be prompted to create one.

What is the Refund Policy?

We are committed to ensuring your satisfaction with our services. If you are not completely satisfied, you can request a full refund within 30 days of your purchase. To be eligible for a refund, please note the following:

Refund requests must be made within 30 days of the transaction date.
The request should include your order number and reason for the refund.
Refunds will be processed to the original payment method used at the time of purchase.
Refunds may take up to 5-10 business days to appear in your account, depending on your bank or credit card issuer.
Services or products already used or accessed may not be eligible for a full refund.