• Juliana finds folding paper into flowers to be a meditative process
• She uses organic watercolours on crepe paper sourced in Florence
• A single flower can take around three hours to craft

Juliana Stolberg handcrafts lifelike paper flowers that could easily be mistaken for real ones. A trained bookbinder, Juliana found solace in folding paper to make flowers after facing personal challenges that stopped her from practising her initial craft. "I used to create paper flowers when I was a child in Belgium, my home country. So, today, my craft has become a sort of therapy and a tribute to lovely memories," she says. Juliana is now based in Venice, where she opened her workshop Curiosité Artisanale in 2024. "Venice is all about water and the lagoon, so I am in the process of growing my own personal garden as an ode to greenery and nature,” she says. Juliana uses fine crepe paper sourced in Florence to obtain the unique hues that she dyes herself with organic colours.