Many of us who have a stationery fetish cannot resist handmade paper, but few realize that what is often passed off as “handmade” these days is not really so. Hence, The Bombay Paperie – to conserve the traditional technique of handmade paper making and to spread awareness about its merits.

Handmade paper making was an art India acquired from the Moghuls around the 15th century and lost somewhere down the years when it became more economical to mass produce …