{"id":594,"date":"2025-08-19T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/?page_id=594"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:27:09","slug":"founding-circle-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Karatasi Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" style=\"\" >\n    \n    <section class=\"skrollable u-clearfix u-image u-shading u-section-2\" id=\"block-1\" data-image-width=\"1024\" data-image-height=\"1024\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(46, 51, 41, 0.5), rgba(46, 51, 41, 0.5)), url(&quot;https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/l_l_-1024x1024.png&quot;);\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-bottom-lg u-valign-bottom-md u-valign-bottom-sm u-valign-bottom-xs u-sheet-1\"><\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-align-center u-clearfix u-container-align-center u-custom-color-32 u-section-3\" id=\"block-2\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-md u-valign-middle-sm u-sheet-1\">\n        <h1 class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-grey-90 u-title u-text-1\"> Not Just Paper<\/h1>\n        <h2 class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-palette-1-dark-3 u-text-2\"> Handmade Paper Creations For Writing, Drawing Archiving And Imagination<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-grey-90 u-text-3\">Crafted to be shared, archived, gifted and collected. Limited edition storybooks, notebooks, journals, and artefacts, crafted from natural fibres and handmade paper.&nbsp;<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>\n        <\/p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/?product_cat=handmade-creations\" class=\"u-active-custom-color-11 u-align-center u-border-active-custom-color-11 u-border-hover-custom-color-11 u-border-none u-btn u-btn-round u-button-style u-custom-font u-custom-item u-grey-75 u-heading-font u-hover-custom-color-11 u-radius u-text-active-custom-color-12 u-text-custom-color-25 u-text-hover-grey-75 u-btn-1\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\" data-animation-delay=\"0\" data-animation-direction=\"\">Explore Handmade Creations<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-container-align-left-xs u-custom-color-15 u-section-4\" id=\"sec-2572\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-sm u-sheet-1\">\n        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         <div class=\"u-effect-fade u-gallery-item u-gallery-item-5\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"2000\">\n                          <div class=\"u-back-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4.jpg\">\n                          <\/div>\n                          <div class=\"u-align-center u-container-align-center u-over-slide u-shading u-valign-top u-over-slide-5\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"u-effect-fade u-gallery-item u-gallery-item-6\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"2000\">\n                          <div class=\"u-back-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.jpg\">\n                          <\/div>\n                          <div class=\"u-align-center u-container-align-center u-over-slide u-shading u-valign-top u-over-slide-6\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"u-effect-fade u-gallery-item u-gallery-item-7\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"2000\">\n                          <div class=\"u-back-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5.jpg\">\n                          <\/div>\n                          <div class=\"u-align-center u-container-align-center u-over-slide u-shading u-valign-top u-over-slide-7\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"u-effect-fade u-gallery-item u-gallery-item-8\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"2000\">\n                          <div class=\"u-back-slide\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-back-image u-expanded\" src=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_01241.jpg\">\n                          <\/div>\n                          <div class=\"u-align-center u-container-align-center u-over-slide u-shading u-valign-top u-over-slide-8\"><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n                      <h1 class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-grey-90 u-title u-text-1\"> For you!<\/h1>\n                      <p class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-grey-90 u-text-2\"> These are the pieces you hold. The notebooks you write in.&nbsp;The story pages you read from. The paper you draw on.&nbsp;The cards you send. The Journals that hold your thoughts.&nbsp;<br>\n                        <br>The objects that accompany your imagination as it moves.&nbsp;For readers and re-readers. For collectors and gift-givers, authors. For third spaces,&nbsp; creative studios, institutions, and stockists.&nbsp;&nbsp;For you!<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>\n                      <\/p>\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/?product_cat=handmade-creations\" class=\"u-active-custom-color-11 u-align-center u-border-active-custom-color-11 u-border-hover-custom-color-11 u-border-none u-btn u-btn-round u-button-style u-custom-font u-custom-item u-grey-75 u-heading-font u-hover-custom-color-11 u-radius u-text-active-custom-color-12 u-text-custom-color-25 u-text-hover-grey-75 u-btn-1\">Explore Handmade Creations<\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-container-align-left-xs u-custom-color-15 u-section-5\" id=\"sec-0588\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-sm u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"data-layout-selected u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n          <div class=\"u-gutter-0 u-layout\" style=\"\">\n            <div class=\"u-layout-col\" style=\"\">\n              <div class=\"u-size-60\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"u-layout-row\" style=\"\">\n                  <div class=\"u-align-justify u-container-style u-layout-cell u-shading u-shape-rectangle u-size-60 u-layout-cell-1\">\n                    <div class=\"u-container-layout u-valign-top-sm u-valign-top-xs u-container-layout-1\">\n                      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-expanded u-align-center-lg u-align-center-md u-align-center-sm u-align-center-xs u-align-left-xl u-image u-image-contain u-image-default u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/34.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"2000\" data-image-height=\"2000\">\n                      <h1 class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-grey-90 u-title u-text-1\">Made With Care<\/h1>\n                      <p class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-grey-90 u-text-2\"> Each piece is crafted by women artisans who transform discarded materials into new handmade paper and fibre objects. Every piece is handmade, uncoated, and left in its natural state. The texture is shaped by fibre, sun, and time.&nbsp; No two pieces are the same.<br>\n                        <br> Every creation grows from an ongoing exploration of materials and craft shaped by research into sustainability, material practice, and everyday use.<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>\n                      <\/p>\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/?page_id=654\" class=\"u-active-custom-color-11 u-align-center u-border-active-custom-color-11 u-border-hover-custom-color-11 u-border-none u-btn u-btn-round u-button-style u-custom-font u-custom-item u-grey-75 u-heading-font u-hover-custom-color-11 u-radius u-text-active-custom-color-12 u-text-custom-color-25 u-text-hover-grey-75 u-btn-1\">Our Process<\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-align-center u-clearfix u-container-align-center u-custom-color-32 u-section-6\" id=\"sec-a03f\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-lg u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-middle-xl u-valign-middle-xs u-sheet-1\">\n        <h1 class=\"u-align-center u-custom-font u-text u-text-font u-text-grey-90 u-title u-text-1\"> Storytelling Experiences<\/h1>\n        <p class=\"u-align-center u-text u-text-grey-90 u-text-2\"> Some people come to Karatasi for the objects \u2014 notebooks, journals, and handmade paper crafted from natural fibres. Others come for storytelling experiences.<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-container-align-left-xs u-custom-color-15 u-section-7\" id=\"sec-5cb2\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-sm u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"data-layout-selected u-clearfix u-expanded-width u-layout-wrap u-layout-wrap-1\">\n          <div class=\"u-gutter-0 u-layout\" style=\"\">\n            <div class=\"u-layout-col\" style=\"\">\n              <div class=\"u-size-60\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"u-layout-row\" style=\"\">\n                  <div class=\"u-align-justify u-container-style u-layout-cell u-shading u-shape-rectangle u-size-60 u-layout-cell-1\">\n                    <div class=\"u-container-layout u-container-layout-1\">\n                      <div class=\"u-align-center u-carousel u-expanded-width-xs u-gallery u-gallery-slider u-layout-carousel u-lightbox 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They can read, listen, reflect, and respond at their own pace, whether for a few moments or a longer stay.&nbsp;<br>\n                        <br>Stories unfold in different ways. Sometimes they are encountered in a space by those who pass through. At other times, they are shared \u200bamong people, returned to, and added to over time.&nbsp;<br>Whether you\u2019re entertaining visitors in reception areas, inspiring learners, or making your space feel alive, our self-led storytelling experiences offer multiple layers of engagement.&nbsp;<br>\n                        <br>Transform your space into a living archive of myths, legends, and folktales from around the world.&nbsp;<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span>\n                      <\/p>\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/karatasicollective.com\/?page_id=4078\" class=\"u-active-custom-color-11 u-align-center u-border-active-custom-color-11 u-border-hover-custom-color-11 u-border-none u-btn u-btn-round u-button-style u-custom-font u-custom-item u-grey-75 u-heading-font u-hover-custom-color-11 u-radius u-text-active-custom-color-12 u-text-custom-color-25 u-text-hover-grey-75 u-btn-1\" data-animation-name=\"customAnimationIn\" data-animation-duration=\"1000\" data-animation-delay=\"0\" data-animation-direction=\"\"> Explore Storytelling Experiences <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Just Paper Handmade Paper Creations For Writing, Drawing Archiving And Imagination Crafted to be shared, archived, gifted and collected. 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