Collection: Khadi

In the early 1980s, Khadi Papers were the first to introduce Indian handmade papers to artists and designers in and around London. They worked closely with papermakers in India, and later in Nepal and Bhutan. More than twenty years ago they set up their own paper mill in India. The... See more

In the early 1980s, Khadi Papers were the first to introduce Indian handmade papers to artists and designers in and around London. They worked closely with papermakers in India, and later in Nepal and Bhutan. More than twenty years ago they set up their own paper mill in India. The mill is just outside the village of Tarihal near Hubli in Karnataka, South India. This is a cotton growing area and Hubli has the biggest open air cotton market in Asia, an amazing sight. Cotton is the raw material of their papers so this is the perfect place for the mill to be located. 

Khadi Papers in India now directly employs over sixty men and women from local villages and indirectly provides work for printers, technicians and the carpenter, Badagir, who makes our deckles and moulds. Khadi Papers now have their own organic farm, irrigated by run-off water from the paper mill where they grow mangoes, bananas and organic vegetables.