Artex Collective - Handmade Paper Workshop

📜 Handmade Paper Workshop – Paper as a Creative Medium 🌿 In this workshop you’ll get to know paper as an artistic medium and explore the possibilities of making it by hand from scratch. From soaking and pulping old fibres to pulling your own sheets, you’ll experience the full journey of paper – and see how everyday waste turns into tactile, visually rich handmade paper. You’ll be working with familiar, recycled materials you can find at home – egg cartons, cardboard, old printed sheets – giving them a completely new life. The workshop provides screens and moulds, coloured pulp and decorative elements such as threads, leaves and flowers, inviting you to experiment with texture and colour, and you’re welcome to bring small personal materials you’d like to embed in your sheets. Alongside the practical making, you’ll also hear stories about traditional paper‑making techniques and the rich history of paper, as well as how contemporary textile and visual artists use it in their work. ✨ What will we do? prepare old paper for recycling and learn how to make pulp work with screens and moulds to form your own sheets experiment with add‑ons (threads, leaves, flowers, fragments of drawings or text) to create characterful, one‑of‑a‑kind paper 👩‍🎨 Who’s behind it – Artex Collective The workshop is led by members of the Artex collective, a group of textile and visual artists active in exhibitions, residencies and educational projects. Ela Leko – textile artist; completed Textile Design at TTF (2024) and started her MA in New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2025. She has exhibited at Erste Fragments 21, Croatian Design Exhibition 21/22, Bien 2023 and 2025, and YTAT in Łódź, with several solo shows (Into The Blue, Plavetnilo), and is a member of Artex and ULUPUH. Leo Subanović – TTF graduate, with a Master’s ERASMUS semester at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Łodzi. He collaborated with ReGalerija on rug design and received a special mention at the Croatian Design Exhibition 21/22, as well as an award from Galerija Rigo. Member of ULUPUH and HDLU. Marijeta Markovina – textile designer with over twenty group and two solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad; her work is inspired by personal experiences and sensory impressions, and she actively works with children. Member of Artex, ULUPUH and Bašćina. Helga Alaker – Budapest‑based textile designer; holds degrees in fashion and textile design from TTF in Zagreb, has exhibited solo in Subotica and Łódź and in numerous group shows in Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary, and collaborates with local brands and creative workshops. ✨ IMPORTANT: the workshop is beginner‑friendly and also valuable for artists and designers interested in material‑based practices all basic materials are provided, and you can bring small personal scraps to include in your work places are usually limited, with small groups for more individual guidance