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Tiny storefront just packed with vibrant Nepalese papers and paper goods. Excellent choice of vibrantly colored 9x12 sheets. Look up for the larger sheets draped over dowels near the ceiling. Incredible patterns and textures. Cheap.106 Macdougal St., New York, NY.http://www.nepabhon.com/

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You won't find anything but contact information on their web site, and they only take cash, checks, or money orders. What do you want from an outfit that still produces lead type — e-commerce? Still, Dave Churchman is just about the nicest person you'll ever want to do business with, and was as accommodating as could be when I needed an assortment of typecast Stars of David shipped right away (

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With over 100 classes and workshops in bookbinding, printing, typography, and papermaking, this is the mecca for serious paper fetishists, artists, luddites, and assorted do-it-yourselfers. The 10-week letterpress printing class I'm taking is at once rewarding and extremely frustrating. Setting lead type by hand has given me a sincere appreciation of the craft; five weeks in, I'm still marveling

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Craft Corner hosted an exhibition in January in a tiny space at Safina Plaza absolutely packed with paper treasures (and terracotta ones, too). I did five or six turns around the 50 square foot room before grabbing two of everything in sight. The house brand, Paper Nothings, featured decorative rolled sheets with inclusions and watermark patterns; plus artists' papers, stationery, albums, boxes,

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I frequent this place so often that I nearly forgot to mention it. Carries a nice selection of Japanese washis and other textures from 1" origami sheets up to 16x20" rolls. Also folded sheets of plain and decorated rice papers, mulberries, block prints, and the occasional Italian print. Downstairs you'll find Chinese joss papers in solids, prints, and foils (alluringly cheap, but next to

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The collection here is not particularly rich or exciting, but I have a soft spot for it just the same. Cheap-to-moderately priced origami squares (and circles!) in sizes from 3/4" to 8", in solids, patterns, and prints, plus more star-folding strips than you could ever need, or use, really. I've spent many a satisfied lunch break here. Located in Chinatown. 151 Mott Street, New York, NY.

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Update: Books Kinokuniya has moved to new digs on Sixth Avenue near 39th Street. Unfortunately, they've also raised their paper prices by about 100%. 1073 Avenue of the Americas, NYC212-869-1700A handsome array of Japanese papers, including handpainted and printed rolls and sheets, and brilliantly-colored silk-wrapped mizuhiki.

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It's not them, it's me. I just don't understand this place — how it's organized, where to pay, why there are never prices on anything, etc. The decorative papers are in the main store, I want to say on the third floor, and there's some stationery on the main level, but everything else relating to making things with paper is in the craft ghetto across the street. I made the mistake of enquiring as

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I was already an avid online customer before I visited the store in Boston, which is even more fun. The excellent house-brand card stock comes in a wide array of colors and every standard size -- invest five bucks in the swatchbook if you don't live nearby. Plus an international selection of beautiful handmade papers. http://paper-source.com/ and 338 Boylston Street, Boston, MA and other

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This is where it all started for me. I wanted to buy a little card for my friend Jen, picked out a cute little green one with a nosegay of minute punched white flowers on the front, and got a tiny shock: $8. I started making my own cards right after that and have never given a store-bought since. I have come to understand since then exactly why handmade cards are so expensive retail, but I still

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I spent a week in this store one afternoon near the Pallazzo Pitti. This is the real deal for the famed Florentine marbled paper, and it's the oldest such establishment in Italy. Gorgeous handmade sheets in every imaginable combination of colors. Marbled, spotted, speckled, spattered -- collect them all! Plus a range of handmade books and accessories made from the very same. Also stocks a

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Here's a case of going all around the world to find the paper shop next door. I visited the shop in Pisa, just across the street from Ol' Pedente itself, but I'm told the shop on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan is equally immersive. Besides, it's all made in Florence. This is an excellent little store for rolled and flat sheets of handmade marbled paper and desk accessories made from the stuff, as

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This one's a little bit of a crap shoot. I've been there (New Delhi) and sent emissaries there (Bangalore) and when they're stocked, they're stocked. When they're not stocked, they're capable of claiming they've never carried it (New Delhi, 2006). Anyway, I've encountered plenty of excellent stationery, flat paper, and decorative paper stickers and boxes here. Also an excellent selection of

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I'm starting here because I arrived here in Bangalore today and visited Gangaram's straight away. Absolute treasure trove. This is the kind of place a Desi might call a bookstore-cum-paper emporium (happens I'm not Desi but some of my best friends etc etc.). The entire first floor (*which is the second floor to 'merican speakers) is devoted to paper and things made of paper. Flat sheets, rolled

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My personal favorite sources for paper from all over the world, starting with the places I've been, or have purchased from online.

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