ABOUT HOTEL PAPER

 

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.

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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.

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Hotel Paper invited residents and visitors to take part in a series of free and open educational workshops during August. 2026 experimenting on how a familiar waste material can begin a new life. During each workshop, participants discovered how used cotton hotel linen can be collected, prepared and transformed into pulp. They then used 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 fabric materials.

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The handmade paper produced through the project was also be sent to invited artists, who created new works responding to tourism, hospitality and the seasonality of island life.

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Works by the participating artists, together with material from the workshops and production process, are being presented in a public exhibition in Tinos 04.09 -30.09.2026