The Barichara Paper Workshop in Barichara, Colombia
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Around the turn of the millennium Mexican artist Juan Manuel de la Rosa led a workshop with one goal: to create paper out of natural fibres. That process eventually led to an art exhibition and, in 2001, a permanent workshop in the small colonial town of Barichara. The artisans started by making paper out of the local fique fibre, but later branched out into using fibres from a variety of plants such as pineapple, aloe vera and papyrus, among others. The workshop, now housed in the former wareho
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