Tourism, Hospitality Industry and the Environment
HOTEL PAPER
Cotton Papermaking Workshops
Hotel Paper is a participatory project that transforms discarded cotton hotel bed linen from Tinos into handmade paper, exploring new possibilities for material reuse through art.
The material becomes a way of examining hospitality through something usually kept out of sight: the sheets, resources, labour and energy that support the industry. By bringing hotels, artists, residents and visitors into the same material cycle, Hotel Paper creates space to think collectively about consumption, reuse and environmental responsibility on islands shaped by seasonal tourism.
Hotel Paper invites residents and visitors to take part in a series of open educational workshops experimenting on how a familiar waste material can begin a new life. During each workshop, participants will discover how used cotton hotel linen is collected, prepared and transformed into pulp. They will then use a traditional mould and deckle to make their own sheet of handmade cotton paper and learn how to easily replicate this process at home to make paper out of all sorts of waste materials.
The handmade paper produced through the project will also be sent by Post to invited artists, who will create new works responding to tourism, hospitality and the seasonality of island life.
Works by the participating artists, together with material from the workshops and production process, will be presented in a public exhibition in Tinos in September 2026.
Hotel Paper Workshops
Duration: approximately 80 minutes
Suitable for: adults, families and children 8years+
Participants will:
• learn about hotel textile waste and its connection to tourism
• explore the basic stages and tools of handmade papermaking
• work with cotton pulp produced from retired hotel sheets to form their own sheet of hotel paper
The paper will need time to be pressed and dried. Finished sheets can be collected from the studio after 4 days. Participants can choose for their work to participate in the September HOTEL PAPER exhibition
WORKSHOP DATES
SUNDAY 2 AUGUST
11:30
SUNDAY 9 AUGUST
11:30
SUNDAY 16 AUGUST
11:30
SUNDAY 23 AUGUST
11:30
Participation : FREE
Registration required: info@otonom.gr
Location: TRION IERARCHON 50, TINOS, 84200 See Location on Google Maps
Contributing Hotels
The first Hotel Paper experiments were made possible through linen collected from Elayio Houses, Pnoes, Odera Tinos and Pansion Flora, alongside further participating hotels across Tinos.
Contact
For workshop registrations and information:
Email: info@otonom.gr
Instagram: @otonom.gr
Hotel Paper is developed by Otonom with the support of NEON Organisation for Culture and Development, the Cyclades Preservation Fund and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
