Available in a wide range of colors, textures, and formats, paper is today omnipresent in the everyday lives of a good number of people, but is equally widely used in field of art.

Paper can serve as a support for painting or drawing, be employed to make origami, constitute the basis for collage or papier-mâché works, or [Read more]

Paper was invented in China during the 2nd century. In 105 AD, the high-ranking eunuch of the Imperial Court, Cai Lun, later in charge of the manufacture of weapons and paper, described in detail the his production process in which bark and cloth rags were reduced to pulp to produce the fibrous material to make paper.

Until 610, the year [Read more]

The first pulp was produced from cloth, cotton, or hemp rags. It was only in 1850 that wood began to be massively used, when it was discovered that it could be finely grated to produce the cellulose necessary for paper production. 

Origami is art of paper folding. Invented by the Japanese, it first had a religious meaning, since the first folded models were used as offerings to spiritual entities. It was, moreover, that from this custom arose the accordion fan.

During the 7th century, origami became an entertainment art. Among the most famous figures we find the [Read more]

A famous Surrealist technique, Cadavre exquis consists in creating a poem or a drawing in a group. On a piece of paper, each participant writes down a sentence or draws something that he hides from the following person by folding the piece of paper. Once the game is finished, a striking story or image formed by these various elements appears. [Read more]

According to a Japanese belief, folding 1,000 paper cranes will make your wish come true. During the 50's, Sadako Sasaki, a young girl exposed to the atomic radiation in Hiroshima during World War II, began to make cranes to cure herself of leukemia.

Unfortunately, little Sadako died at the age of 12 before having reached her goal and a [Read more]