About Carriage House Paper

Carriage House Paper LLC, located in Williamsburg - Brooklyn New York, houses our showroom for handmade paper, papermaking supplies and equipment, and is our teaching and papermaking facility. 

Donna Koretsky

Co-founder and owner of Carriage House Paper; BA in Art, University of California/Santa Cruz. Donna has done field research in papermaking techniques in Japan, Korea, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and throughout Europe. She is also the director of the International Paper Museum.  Her sculptural works have been exhibited internationally, and are in many private collections. Donna writes the column “Along the Paper Road…” for Hand Papermaking newsletter.

Monel Reina

Studio Manager of Carriage House Paper; Monel graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 where she received her BFA in furniture design. There, amongst the traditional building materials of wood and metal,  Monel also experimented with making functional and sculptural furniture pieces with paper pulp. She is interested in continuing this exploration into the structural properties of paper.

Maya Benedetti

Studio Assistant at Carriage House Paper; Maya graduated from The Cooper Union in 2025 with a BFA in Fine Arts. She is a papermaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Outside of Carriage House Paper, Maya enjoys literature on cinema and collects various found fossils, which informs her artistic practice.

Elaine Koretsky (1932-2018)

Co-founder of Carriage House; A.B., Cornell University. Elaine authored/edited six books and numerous articles dealing with technical or historical aspects of papermaking and produced 17 documentary films. She was involved in field research in traditional papermaking throughout the world, and is fondly referred to as the modern day Dard Hunter.