Our Story
Paper is where we started. Material is what keeps us curious.
Why we began
An interest in what discarded material could become.
Pulp & Threads began with a simple curiosity: cotton rags, offcuts and paper waste still have useful fibre in them. Treated with care rather than written off, that fibre can be worked again into something people want to keep.
The studio grew out of that question, and it still shapes what we choose to make and what we choose to start from.
The workshop
Chiluvuru, Andhra Pradesh.
We work from a workshop in Chiluvuru, Andhra Pradesh. The work is physical: pulping, forming, pressing, drying, cutting and binding, each stage done by hand and judged by eye.
Sheets are laid out to dry in the open, then trimmed, sorted and finished before they become anything else.
Why handmade
Variation is what the hand leaves behind.
Machine paper is made to be identical. Handmade paper isn't. Deckled edges, a tactile surface, small shifts in thickness from sheet to sheet — these are the evidence of making, not faults to be corrected.
Small-batch production keeps that character intact, and lets us adjust a run rather than repeat it blindly.
Sustainability
Keeping useful fibre in circulation.
Our focus is on recovering useful fibre and extending the life of material that already exists — using suitable waste streams as raw material rather than starting new.
That means thoughtful batch production, reworking suitable offcuts back into the pulp, and developing new applications for recovered material as we learn what it can hold.
What it becomes
Sheets, and everything after the sheet.
Handmade sheets, notebooks and journals, coasters, brand tags and stationery — and custom applications made to a brief, from the sheet up.
