ABOUT US
Australian, Kali Sari, founder of Saraswati
Papers
recognized that Bali was struggling
with the
ever increasing pollution caused by a growing and modernising society. With this concern and a
life long interest in all things paper, she started to put her kitchen blender to new use and began to experiment making handcrafted paper from recycled materials.
(Photo by Bruna Rotunno)
A paper-making course later and with the support of the Wisnu Foundation (a not-for-profit foundation concerned with the conservation of the Balinese environment), Saraswati Papers was born in May 1995.
Working out of her house and kitchen for the first six months, Kali enlisted a team of Balinese village women to learn the skilful art of paper making. The methods used were the ancient and traditional process of blending, dipping and pressing sheets of paper by hand and hanging it out to dry.
Over the years the cottage business has become a unique boutique business in that the specialty of Saraswati Papers is the team’s ability to create and adapt designs and products to a customer’s specific needs. Our standards are of high quality with attention to detail and design.
The result, a wide range of beautiful and unique earth friendly products.