Karatasi Studio
Story-led design, handmade materials and creative experimentation.
Karatasi Studio is a space where artists, educators, organisations, and community groups can explore how physical materials, including handmade paper and natural fibres, shape storytelling, learning, and creative practice.
At its core, Karatasi Studio is concerned with how meaning is carried not only through words but also through the materials that hold them.
How We Do It
Artists, educators, organisations and community groups working with story, learning and creative practice.
Karatasi studio offers artists a space to experiment with handmade paper as part of their creative practice. This may include testing ideas, prototyping work, developing mixed-media pieces, or exploring how handmade materials can support visual storytelling.
Working With Organisations and Communities
Karatasi Studio works with organisations, schools, and community groups seeking creative materials aligned with sustainability, culture, and imagination.
This can include bespoke materials for learning programmes, workshops, and community-based creative projects.
Karatasi Studio operates as a regenerative creative practice. Handmade paper is used not only as a material, but as a framework for thinking about resource use, care, and long-term value.
The studio supports artists and organisations while contributing to wider storytelling and community work. Materials, stories, and people are understood as interconnected, with each supporting the other.
Paper
All paper is made using natural and recovered fibres, including banana fibre, pineapple leaf fibre, and elephant grass. These fibres are hand-pulped, formed into sheets, and dried naturally, without coatings or chemical treatments, allowing the fibre's texture, tone, and character to remain visible.
Each sheet is unique. Variations in weight, surface, and colour are understood as part of the material’s identity rather than imperfections to be removed.
