Austria · Fine-Art-Adjacent Workshop Craft (paper engineering / wearable art)
No single standardized Austrian term documented
The design and hand-fabrication of contemporary jewelry from corrugated cardboard and paper straws by Austrian artist Monica Peksa, part of the same wider international coiled/compressed cardboard jewelry movement documented in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Peksa, a trained arts and crafts teacher with an earlier background in jewelry making, works with what she describes as 'seemingly worthless materials' -- corrugated cardboard and paper straws -- combined with stainless steel and brass for small structural and decorative elements, achieving a modern aesthetic from deliberately humble source materials. Her work is sold in person at 'S Fachl in Linz and via direct Instagram contact, reflecting the same small-scale, independent-studio commercial model documented across this technique family internationally.
Risk level: Stable · Not applicable — a contemporary design practice
The Viennese clock making tradition — the production of the distinctive Austrian precision clocks (Regulatoren and Stutzuhren) developed during the Josephine period (Joseph II, 1780–1790) and reaching their height during the Biedermeier…
The Innviertel linen weaving tradition of the Upper Austrian Inn valley quarter — the production of the fine homespun linen cloth (Hausleinwand) from locally grown flax that sustained the domestic textile economy of the Innviertel farming…
The Lower Austrian Hafner tradition — the making of the distinctive lead-glazed and tin-glazed earthenware of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), historically the functional pottery that served the rural communities between the Danube and…
The Carinthian folk weaving tradition of Kärnten — the southern Austrian province whose textile heritage bridges the Austrian Alpine tradition to the north and the Slovenian weaving traditions to the south, producing a distinctive folk…
The Salzburg marionette making tradition of the Salzburger Marionettentheater — the construction and stringing of the specific performance marionettes used by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre (established 1913), whose characteristic…
The Tiroler Graukäse tradition — the making of the distinctive acid-curd gray rind cheese of the Tyrolean Inn valley and Zillertal, which unlike all other cheeses in the CRAFT European archive is made without rennet — using only the…
A ritual art of Mathura and Vrindavan in which scenes from the life of Krishna are cut by hand with scissors into paper stencils and then made as temporary floor patterns with colored powders, or, in the jal sanjhi form, with colors…
Abstract painting built on Arabic letterforms, the approach of the wider Arab art movement known as hurufiyya, as developed in Oman by Anwar Sonya, directly credited as one of the founders of the Omani Art Movement and considered the…
The illumination of pages with gold and color on a framework of geometric pattern drawn by hand with a two-legged compass and a straight ruler.
Handmade paper formed from the pseudostems (the 'trunks') of banana plants that have already fruited, developed in Bali from 1998 for interiors rather than writing.
A writing and ceremonial material made by beating the inner bark of the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) rather than by forming a sheet from pulp, which places it closer to tapa and barkcloth than to true paper.
Two textiles made from washi in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture.