Birch bark as a work of art

Art Basel shows art made from birch bark by sagaan The young artist Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju enchants birch bark into a work of art that sensitively interweaves her personal life story with the great questions of humanity. In the thick of the development process: Tim Mergelsberg from sagaan. The tree with birch bark skin was [...]

Anne's hay

A little challenge: How long can you manage NOT to open a sagaan tin that arrives at your home? 1, 2, 3 ... Almost impossible, isn't it? Even as a child, we couldn't do it on birthdays and it's probably something that's ingrained in us: when we see a chest, a box, a parcel, we want to lift the lid and [...].

We have been nominated for the German Sustainability Award!

"Our" idea (we had it 20 years ago, others 5000 years ago) is finally ripe - after all, it stands for the many, initially small things that each individual can do to make the world a little bit better.

Construction of a birch bark canoe model

When the phone rang in spring, a very special conversation ensued: the young pupil Till had chosen a great challenge for his year's work in Year 8 at the Waldorf School in Karlsruhe: He wanted to set to work recreating a canoe from birch bark, true to detail, as a floating model. Till is by no means the only one who [...]