Bollatha · Ganemulla · Sri Lanka

Find Perfection in Imperfection.

Our papers are not perfect. They're rough around the edges, thicker in places, never a clean white sheet. But in their own way, they're perfect, because we didn't cut trees to create them, nor use fancy machinery. They were made by the caring hands of women from rural communities, making a difference in their lives, their country, and more.

A handmade recycled paper box with dried leaves

saving the world one paper at a time. that…is perfection

Design your own → Meet the papers
A handmade recycled paper box with dried leaves Moon Stone paper texture Sadeeka Print paper texture made of yesterday's waste
A woman checking sheets of colourful handmade paper drying on racks
sheets drying in the Bollatha breeze
Why we exist

Nothing wasted.
Everything counts.

Kadadasi is a 100% Sri Lankan, home-based family enterprise. We collect discarded paper and offcuts, beat them back to pulp with manual machinery, and lift each new sheet by hand. No industrial process, no high electricity, no trees felled, ever.

Our papers are deliberately rustic. The uneven edges, the flecks of leaf and thread, the shifting colour, that's not a flaw. That's a fingerprint.

Read our story
Hands assembling a green patterned handmade paper gift bag with rope handles
every bag passes through six pairs of hands
The craft

Days in the making.

Pulping, dyeing, lifting, pressing, sun-drying, folding, stitching. A single notebook takes days, and carries the texture of every hand that shaped it.

See the textures
New · The Paper Studio

Dream it. We'll make it by hand.

Pick a real Kadadasi paper, choose a notebook, box or gift bag, set your size, add your logo or a few words, and watch it take shape in 3D before we make it for real.

Open the Paper Studio →
Sandyglow paper texture Forestglow paper texture
Women crafting colourful paper products around a large wooden table in the Kadadasi workshop
the workshop, an ordinary Tuesday
The people

Papers with first names.

Kadadasi is powered by women from the villages around us, many of them mothers, working flexible hours on their own terms. When one of them invents a new texture, the paper takes her name.

say hello to Sadeeka, Dhammika & Nirosha ~

Meet the community
A seed-paper name tag, flecked with real seeds, on a green lanyard
look closely — those flecks are real seeds
Plantable seed paper

Paper that grows.

Some of our paper is pressed with real seeds. Print your name tags, invitations or thank-you cards on it, and when the event is over, your guests don't bin them. They plant them.

A little water, a little sun, and the paper softens into the soil and grows into herbs, flowers and greens. The only event stationery designed to leave something behind, on purpose.

1Use it at your event
2Plant it in soil or a pot
3Watch it grow
Design a seed-paper piece →