“We’re talking about the rediscovery of lost things, but it’s not just for the rediscovery itself,” says papermaker Tom Frith-Powell. “It’s because it makes a superior product. It’s not just, ‘This is how they used to do it.’ This is to create the best artist’s paper you can get.” Once touted as redundant, the most quotidian of materials is now becoming highly rarefied. @bayasimons steps inside the @paper.foundation, a new mill based in a 19th-century country house in Cumbria’s Burneside working to revive the waning craft of making paper by hand. ⁠Link in bio for the full story.⁠ 📷 @tomfrithpowell making a batch of paper. Photos by @louis.b.r⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #papermaking⁠