Karatasi Collective
Story-led design, handmade materials and creative experimentation.
Karatasi Collective exists to ignite imagination through story-led design and artisan craft, turning ideas into meaningful, tactile realities. The studio works with handmade paper and natural fibres to create materials that support learning, creativity and experimentation.
Karatasi Collective offers a space for artists, educators and organisations to explore how materials shape ideas, stories and practice.
Our Materials
Our Materials
All materials are made from natural fibres and recycled sources, including banana fibre, pineapple leaf fibre and elephant grass. Each piece is hand pulped, naturally dried and left uncoated, allowing the texture, colour and character of the fibre to remain visible.
The paper varies in weight, tone and surface, carrying a subtle tactility that invites touch, attention and care. It encourages a slower, more considered relationship with making.
The result is paper that feels alive, supporting imagination through presence rather than perfection.
Who Is This For?
Who Is This For?
Artists, educators, organisations and community groups working with story, learning and creative practice.
Working With Artists and Makers
Working With Artists and Makers
The Creative Studio is a place for artists to experiment, test ideas and develop work using handmade paper.
Artists work with Karatasi through experimentation, prototyping and collaboration. This may include developing cards, prints, or mixed-media work, creating small product lines, testing ideas before production, or collaborating on limited-edition and bespoke pieces.
For artists who want to go deeper, the studio offers opportunities to co-create, review materials and shape future products. This includes access to early prototypes and the chance to develop work alongside the studio as new ideas take form.
The focus is always on collaboration rather than extraction, on learning rather than mass production, and on supporting creative practice with materials that carry story and care.
Working With Organisations and Communities
Working With Organisations and Communities
We work with organisations, schools and community groups who want creative materials aligned with sustainability, culture and imagination.
This includes bespoke materials for learning programmes and workshops, custom notebooks and tools for educators, story-led creative kits for community projects, handmade packaging and presentation materials, and collaborative design for cultural and educational initiatives.
The studio brings story into design, ensuring materials are not only functional but meaningful.
Each project begins with listening and understanding what the materials need to hold and who they are for.
Sustainability and Purpose
Sustainability and Purpose
Karatasi Collective was created as a sustainable creative studio.
The studio supports artists and organisations while also helping to fund and sustain storytelling and community work through Yuniya CIC.
This allows the work to grow without relying solely on funding and ensures that creativity, learning and access remain at the centre.
Handmade paper becomes both a creative material and a way to support imagination, learning and connection in communities.
This is a regenerative practice. Materials, stories and people supporting one another.