Makers in Residence: DNJ PAPER

During their residency, DNJ PAPER will demonstrate the complex processes involved in the construction of their signature Paper Leather Ballcap. Throughout the residency project, DNJ PAPER will discuss the history and context of hand-made sheets of washi paper, then transform them into paper leather, and show the cutting, hand and machine sewing, and finishing techniques used throughout the construction of a Paper Leather Cap.

Based in Naarm (Melbourne), DNJ PAPER is a collaborative research project and micro-label by designers Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and Jake Nakashima-Edwards. Using handmade Japanese paper (washi), made from the bark of the Paper Mulberry tree in small studios across Japan, DNJ PAPER explore traditional and nontraditional ways to make paper clothing and accessories in response to pressing social, aesthetic, and conceptual questions emerging from contemporary fashion practice.