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The studio

Made to your wall
since 2017

Paperfield is a two-bench Ankara atelier. We compose one large mixed-media collage at a time — paper, gouache and stitched cloth — for one room, and only take on as much as we can make by hand.

Founder Elif Toparlak at the Paperfield bench
Elif · founder
Cloth scraps and thread laid out on the studio table
cloth & thread
Archive quality
How it started

From a kitchen table to a Kavaklıdere bench

The first Paperfield piece was cut on a kitchen table in 2017 for a friend's bare hallway — three layers of hand-dyed paper and a strip of a worn-out linen shirt. It's still on that wall.

Nine years on we work from a small studio off Tunalı Hilmi with two benches, a wall of paper, and a rule we don't break: every commission is measured, sampled and composed for one room only.

— one room, one piece
0 walls composed 0 cafes & studios 0–8 pieces / month
The two benches

Who makes your wall

Small on purpose. You'll meet all three of us — the same hands that measure your wall build the piece.

Founder

Elif Toparlak

Trained in printmaking at Hacettepe, Elif started Paperfield in 2017. She leads composition and colour, and does every client's overlay draft by hand. Signature touch: a single off-key colour hidden in each piece.

since 2017
Paper & surface

Mert Vardar

Ten years in bookbinding before Paperfield, Mert dyes and tears the handmade paper, builds the archival boards and handles every mount and on-site hang. If it hangs flush, that's Mert.

6 years with us
Textile & stitch

Deniz Aksoy

A textile designer by training, Deniz sources the cloth, hand-stitches the scraps and lays the gold leaf. She keeps the swatch board that clients pull their palette from.

4 years with us
What we work in

Paper, gouache, cloth & a little gold

base·

Handmade paper

Dyed and torn in the studio for deckle edges you can feel across a room.

colour·

Lightfast gouache

Brushed in smears and washes, sealed matte so it holds its colour for years.

texture·

Stitched cloth

Scraps and ribbon hand-sewn through the paper — even your own keepsake fabric.

light·

Gold-leaf flecks

Laid into dried gouache so the piece shifts as the daylight moves across it.

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