Mykobütten: The Mushroom Papers of Tanja Major

In a world tipping toward artificiality, Tanja Major’s Mykobütten offers a tender recalibration. Her handmade papers, woven not from pulp or rags but from the filaments of fungi, are less an object and more an offering. A soft, spore-kissed whisper from the forest floor.

Aromatic 'Sponge Mushrooms'

Handmade paper from fungus.

Crafted from nearly 100% fungus, these ethereal sheets are both material and message: compostable artworks that trace decay and renewal. They are perhaps what paper might look like if it had dreams - slightly surreal, delicately textured, and lit from within by mushroom pigments that shimmer like damp earth under moonlight.

Paper made with almost 100% mushrooms, returned to the forest for compostability tests. This example has been decomposing for 3 weeks.

The process itself is slow and deliberate, echoing the natural cycles it draws from. Fruiting bodies - the visible caps and stems of fungi - are foraged and broken down by hand, softened and worked into a fibrous pulp...

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Image Credits:

Lead Image: Wertpapiere - ©Tanja Major

All other images courtesy of Tanja Major.