Paper Lover

The internet is my favourite form of Yellow Pages, you can find as soon as you want the most of what you need but not everything can be communicated though this media, some emotion will always come from a more physical reality.

Can you touch the rough or lucid texture? Can you smell the brand new plastic scent or the antique dusty smell?
Can you feel free to cry uninterruptedly knowing that your tears are all going to be saved and absorbed?

This short post is completely dedicate to who, like me, is definitely in love with Paper.


My passion started around the 2400 B.C, in the Ancient Egypt, when my mum (primary school teacher), after a day-trip with her pupils, brought me a piece of papyrus. I felt like it was the most precious thing in the Universe.
In it there is already a story, it belonged to someone else and now it was mine, to be treasured.


This is how paper was considered before the 18th century, when Nicholas Luis Robert initiated its mass production.


If you are in London and are sharing the same interest I suggest you to go in the fulcrum of this history that is now becoming a niche passion:






Shepherds Fakiners - 



Fedrigoni Uk Showroom - Situated in London's Hatton Garden is a building that goes by the name of Diamond House, where three people sit in a bright room surrounded by lots and lots of paper...otherwise known as the Fedrigoni Showroom.









Reference


Jane Thomas,Paul Jackson, On paper, ( London : Merrell, 2001)


Available at <http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/papermaking.htm> [accessed at 12 January 2012]


Available at <http://www.hqpapermaker.com/paper-history/>  [accessed at 13 January 2012]