Hannah Lane Paper & Wood

Welcome to my award-winning bespoke & decorative products, made by a unique recycling technique using the printed pages of unwanted paper and wood.

In 2002, after accidentally leaving a book out in the rain, Hannah Lane developed the award-winning Paperwork. She couldn’t bear to throw away her ruined book and decided to see if she could reuse it.

Hannah had previously specialised in wood working during her degree and followed the fact that paper originates wood. Recycling has always been important to Hannah within her work, so to be able to create a technique using the printed pages of unwanted books and paper that no longer had a use, became a defining factor within her practise.

Hannah begins by making the material, each page is layered back into a solid wood like material. Traditional wood working methods are then used to cut objects from that material; the unique surface patternation of the paper when the objects are worked can never be recreated and echoes wood grain. Wood becomes paper becomes wood again. Each item is hand-made by Hannah in her Derbyshire studio.