Girl making paper lanterns, Old Town, Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Girl making paper lanterns, Old Town, Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Woman making handmade paper in Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Uyghur woman beating boiled Mulberry bark with wooden mallet for paper making, Hotan, China, Asia

Hand made paper made from mulberry tree bark drying in the sun, Moyen, Hotan, Xinjiang, China, Asia

Woman stacking bundles of bamboo ready for lime washing as part of the hand made paper making process, Hsipaw, Shan state, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Uyghur woman stripping bark from Mulberry branches for paper making, Hotan, Xinjiang, China, Asia

Traditional paper making, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia

Making hand made paper, China, Asia

Muslim women making vast quantities of tissue paper kites for January kite festival, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Asia

Making traditional Japanese washi paper at Echizen Washi No Sato village in Fukui, Japan, Asia

A man making paper lanterns in a shop in Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Making traditional Japanese washi paper at Echizen Washi No Sato village in Fukui, Japan, Asia

Making traditional Japanese washi paper at Echizen Washi No Sato village in Fukui, Japan, Asia

Antemoro paper atelier, making flower-embedded paper, Ambalavao, Fianarantsoa province, Ihorombe Region, Southern Madagascar, Africa

Separating mulberry fibers for making Japanese washi paper at the Echizen Washi No Sato village in Fukui, Japan, Asia

Woman making umbrellas with brown paper at the Umbrella factory at Bo Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Paper making, Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

From paper pattern to the finished shoe in the making laboratory at Cercal footwear school, San Mauro Pascoli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe

Antemoro paper atelier, making flower-embedded paper, Ambalavao, Fianarantsoa province, Ihorombe Region, Southern Madagascar, Africa

Making paper in village near Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Lhokta paper being soaked and dried in sun in wooden frame on a U.N. funded project, Bhaktapur (Bhadgaun), Nepal, Asia

Papyrus growing in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa

Making paper in village near Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Making paper in village near Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Paper lantern making in the Handicraft Workshop, Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

CAMBODIA HIV+ couple making handicrafts. Toul Sambo village is a resettlement area outside of Phnom Penh. Set in rural tranquility surrounded by paddy fields, it is a peaceful place for its residents. A Caritas Cambodia project, it has two focus groups who live there. One group is largely HIV+ and used to reside in a Phnom Penh slum called Borey Kila, until they were evicted by the government who wanted to develop the land for offices and shopping malls. The other group consists of those made homeless when a river's bank subsided in their village, destroying their homes. At the home of Kea Nimal and Kem Sokhorn, both HIV+. They are very industrious working at home making paper bags and ornaments, some with recyclable materials. They can earn $12-$15 per 5-day working week, and live quite comfortably in their attractive home with TV, motor-cycle and other conveniences. They say they are much better off than in the crowded and unhealth slum of Borey Kila in Phnom Penh where they used to live. They get regular orders for the handicrafts they make. They stay healthy by taking ARVs, which are supplied free of charge by the Hope Organization. PHOTO by Sean Sprague

A log pile of freshly cut timber in Grizedale forest, destined for the wood pulp industry for making paper, Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Umbrella making at Borsang Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Umbrella making at Borsang Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Umbrella making at Borsang Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Young girl doing arts and crafts

Colourful umbrellas for sale at a paper making workshop, Heho, near Taunggyi, Myanmar, (Burma)

Wood chip factory for the paper industry, Madang, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Large paper rolls in Gmund paper manufacturing warehouse, Gmund, Germany, Europe

Close-up of a person's hand carving stamp, Xian, China

MALAWI Blantyre School children with globe made by Pamet paper making project which produce fair trade goods from recycling everything from newspaper to elephant dung.

Detail of Mexico a Traves de los Siglos mural by Diego Rivera in the Palacio Nacional depicting life before the Conquest including paper making, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Japanese woman and man standing in a Washi workshop by a vat of pulp, basic plant based ingredients for making paper, Kyushu, Japan

A teenage girl using pen and paper making notes, looking at a smart phone, writing a diary or doing homework

Small bunches of branches and plant fibres on a table, the organic matter used in making washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man stirring a vat of liquid in a workshop with a stick, making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man in a workshop holding plant twigs and stripping the fibre to making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man in a workshop, holding a wooden frame with pressed pulp, making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Two people, man and woman making traditional Washi paper. Trays of pulp and wooden frames and drying racks, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man in a workshop, holding a wooden frame with pressed pulp, making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man in a workshop, holding a wooden frame with pressed pulp, making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan

Japanese man in a workshop holding a wooden frame of dried pulp over a basin of water, making traditional Washi paper, Kyushu, Japan