Here is a fantastic story about traditional paper making in China. Sadly, the maker is in his mid-70s, and no apparent apprentice.
If you love fine paper, the way to preserve a way of life is to build market for it in the United States. To attract people to this work in China the paper would have to sell for probably $5 a sheet. There is market for that. Build that market, preserve that skill.
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If you love fine paper, the way to preserve a way of life is to build market for it in the United States. To attract people to this work in China the paper would have to sell for probably $5 a sheet. There is market for that. Build that market, preserve that skill.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
2 comments:
You can love that fine paper all you want, but if you cannot convince the retailer to buy it from you (the importer) you wont make any money.
Besides that chinese traditional paper is not design for the american market as you taugh us John.
How would you save that poor chinese man´s way of life if you can´t convince the customer (retaler, small shop owner, etc) to buy it in the first place?
Are you gonna tell that poor chinese man to change the tradional chinese way to make papar to satisfy the needs of the american market? If so How?
Thanks
Martin
You don't love paper.
John
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