creative gifts

Decorated with lacy leaf silhouettes, six notebooks are covered in happy jewel-like colors. Komang Sulaksana creates each one with 50 rice straw pages. The covers are crafted of recycled paper and bound with agel grass cord tied around cinnamon sticks.

Jaya Nugraha pays homage to Bali's culture and arts with a stunning creation crafted from linen paper in an elegant black tone. After adding aluminum accents to this decorative box, the artisan decorates the lid by hand with a traditional kayonan design, a classic figure of Indonesian theater used to symbolize the mountains and depict marvelous scenes of their mythology and palaces.

The box also features a soft polyester velvet lining inside, making it the perfect accessory for storing precious jewels or making a fancy gift for friends and family.

Magic and tenderness come together in Jaya Nugraha's newest design, crafted by Balinese artisans. Working with gold-toned cardboard, the artists create a set of five ornaments embellished with Christmas motifs and equipped with natural fiber cords that allow you to hang them anywhere.

Resembling a city of temples with pyramid-like spirals, the patterns on the cover of this cutlery box are created by recycled paper that is carefully coiled by hand. Javanese artisan Riris Simanjuntak creates this eco-friendly way for storing your cutlery; inside, it is lined with woven water hyacinth fiber, featuring four small compartments and one large compartment.

This natural fiber journal, handcrafted by Balinese artisan Komang Sulaksana, features a pandan leaf cover, cinnamon and grass cord binding and 100 pages of rice straw paper perfect for jotting notes, memories, dreams, drawings or poetry. The artisan relishes in the challenge of melding different mediums, relying on both his artistic talent, and on natural fibers, for all of his work. "Creating new designs is so much fun for me," he says. "Arranging different kinds of materials together is not a hard thing to do but, of course, it requires patience and skill."