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 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.


Sophie Pickering

Studio Assistant at Carriage House Paper; Sophie graduated with her MFA from the University of Missouri with a concentration in Papermaking. She is a member artist at 440 Gallery in Brooklyn where she shows figurative pulp paintings housed within sculptural paper frames. Sophie's favorite fibers are (in order) Raw Flax, Thai Kozo, Abaca, and Sisal. 

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. 


Dino

Studio Assistant at Carriage House Paper; Dino enjoys helping out by eating bits of pulp off the ground, chewing on thai kozo, greeting customers, and sleeping in a papermaking vat.