Paper offering consisting of a stack of nearly square pieces of off-white paper, each with a square of metal foil at the centre. Half of the bundled papers have been overprinted in red with Chinese characters and geometric designs inside a border of stylized flowers. A band of orange paint has been painted over the metallic square and extends out to one of the edges. Bound with pink synthetic twine.

Paper offering consisting of a stack of nearly square pieces of off-white paper, each with a square of metal foil at the centre and one corner painted pink. Half of the bundled papers have a band of yellow paint that has been painted over the metallic square and extends out to one of the edges. Bound with white synthetic twine.

Paper offering consisting of a stack of nearly square pieces of off-white paper, each with a square of metal foil at the centre and one corner painted pink. Half of the bundled papers have a band of yellow paint that has been painted over the metallic square and extends out to one of the edges. Bound with white synthetic twine.

Book with image on front of four pink flowers and one yellow flower with Chinese characters inside three pink circles, four figures with red bats over their heads, and four rows of black Chinese characters inside a pink rectangle. The back cover is red with black Chinese characters, and the spine is metallic green and gold with red and gold Chinese characters bordered with metallic red on either side. The book is bound with red fibre string, and the pages of the book are beige paper with text and images printed in black ink.

Paper offering composed of a folded rectangular yellow piece of paper with printed images and text in red ink.

Yellow belt (part c) with metal hook and bar fasteners. On the front is a green lotus motif and black meander border. The belt is stiffened with paper and lined with ecru cotton.

Paper offering consisting of two pieces of circular paper with a scalloped edge and a cutwork geometric design. Folded in half, and then in three. The inner piece of paper (a) is green, and the outer piece of paper (b) is red.

Paper offering consisting of a rectangular piece of red paper with Chinese characters as well as images of dragons and figures in gold ink, and the shortest ends adhered together. Folded several times into a bundle.

Paper offering consisting of multicoloured tissue paper printed with images and Chinese text, and metallic paper with a wavy edge and a pattern formed from by small crescent-shaped cuts in the the paper. All of the pieces of paper have been folded and bundled together with a metal paperclip.

Cream-coloured box-like folder (part a) made of card stock with gold embossing on the spine: "HANDMADE PAPERS OF THE WORLD 1: China--8: Madagascar TAKEO CO., LTD." Folder is filled with large samples of handmade paper from around the world (parts c-ggg); information concerning the originating country, name of paper, materials used, name of paper manufacturer, size in millimeters, and number within the overall paper collection is printed in black ink at the bottom of each sample. Finer, more fragile samples are enclosed in stiff paper folders with circular windows cut into the front and back; information printed along the bottom of the paper sample is repeated along the bottom front edge of the folders. Part b is an index listing all the paper samples in order according to their numeric designation.