Papyrus Paper in Syracuse since 1781
The firm has got as a social aim the study, the research, the experimentation
and the growing in nurseries of papyrus plants and their consequent transformation
in half manufactured products; the manufacture of the half manufactured
products in all finished products obtainable from them; the production,
organization and management of exhibitions, reviews, seminars, demonstrations
and in general all initiatives aimed to contribute to know the papyrus plant
together with the use of all products derived from the manufacture; the
promotion, organization and management of professional training courses
concerning the fields connected with the social object.
The Istituto del Papiro Ltd has been producing papyrus paper obtained exclusively
from selected Cyperus Papyrus plants since 1975, using highly skilled manual
workmanship. It uses special completely natural substances in the treatment
of the papyrus fibres and further refinement processes during manufacture,
all permit excellent quality papyrus writing paper to be made.
A team of experts faithfully
reproduce ancient papyri (also imitating their worm-hole, incising the paper
with a lancet) and parietal paintings copied from models directly reproduced
in the museums where the original ones are exhibited (London, Munich, Vienna,
Turin, El Cairo) and masterpieces of the vascular Greek art. Particular
attention is dedicated to the production of well deserving, diplomas, certificates
of belongings to associations and clubs, of prize-giving and participation
to artistic, cultural, clerical, sporting demonstrations, illuminated codices,
coats of arms.
To the production of paintings and writings, recently we put near a modern
one in order to use even those parts of the plant usually discordered during
the manufacturing of the paper. Thus we created some lines of new conception:
some original stationery articles (copy books, notebooks, albums, index
books, folders, boxes, visiting cards and wishes cards, wedding cards, book
marks, etc.), a very particular line of furniture complements (screens,
lamps, lamp shades, appliqués, floral compositions, etc.) and of
objects (chess boards, writing sets, photo frames, vases, trays, baskets,
etc.). Upon request we organize exhibitions within the exposure of part
of the firm collection, the demonstration of the manufacturing technique
of the papyrus paper and the projection of our video "The papyrus of
Syracuse".
·
January 98: supplying of papyrus paper
to the fashion stylist Marella Ferrera, who created five clothes (with
their sandals) for a high-fashion show in Rome;
· March 98: participation to
the world stock of tourism in Rome;
· May 98: participation to
the show "Saint Marin embraces Sicily";
· September 98: participation
to the exhibition "Maison et Object" in Paris;
· November '98: participation
to the show "Park of the Nebrodi";
· December '98/January '99:
exposition, in the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, of some significant
works of the firm collection;
· January 99: participation
to the show "Museums Expressions" by the Carousel du Louvre
in Paris;
· 18 September 99: participation
to "Linea Blu" on the Italian Television RAI 1.
· From 13 to 15 January partecipation
to the show "Museum Expression" by the Carousel du Louvre in
Paris.
· January 00: from the 20th
to the 23rd, invitation to the Milan fair and from the magazine "D'A"
for the workshop of the papyrus paper in occasion of the international
exhibition of stationery articles and gifts;
· September 01: Article shot
by Sicilia International (to satellitare channel for Sicilian people who
live abroad.)
· November 01: Partecipation
to "Geo & Geo", on the Italian television Rai 3. The program
was about textile fibres and the eventual use of papyrus fibres as fabric.
· 5 May 02: participation to
"Linea Verde" on the Italian Television RAI 1.
·
Some schools in Syracuse organized didactic - cultural meetings, with
the support of the Provincial Assessor ship to Public Education, of the
Local Education Office, of the Town Council of Syracuse and of the Tourist
Agency;
· Various participations, after invitation, from some Town Councils
in concomitance with other events;
· In private clubs too meetings have been organized in order to
explain the manufacturing techniques of the papyrus paper with exhibition
of some of the firm products.
