Looking to stock beautifully handmade, Fair Trade and sustainable gifts in your shop? We’d love to partner with you. Paper High offers an ethical, carefully curated range of journals, leather bags, recycled newspaper gifts, felt accessories, and unique homeware – each piece crafted by skilled artisans in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. By becoming a stockist, you directly support Fair Trade cooperatives, charities, NGOs and small family businesses that we personally know and visit regularly.

Why stock Paper High? (4 key reasons)
  1. Handmade, Fair Trade & ethical: All our products are made under Fair Trade principles using sustainable, recycled or locally sourced materials. With over 3,000 artisans contributing to our collections, every item tells a story of craftsmanship and positive impact.
  2. Environmental responsibility: We actively work to reduce our environmental footprint. We offset our estimated carbon emissions every time we visit our producers, we minimise our carbon footprint by importing goods by sea rather than air, our website’s estimated CO₂ emissions are automatically offset, and we work closely with Tree-Nation to plant trees around the world.
  3. Trusted by retailers worldwide: Paper High supplies businesses of all sizes – from independent boutiques to trusted organisations including the Eden Project and the National Trust.
  4. Personalised products for trade: We offer a selection of personalised items for wholesale customers – ideal for gift shops, museum stores and boutiques looking for unique, story-led products.
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Mark and Claire are smiling at the camera. Claire is holding a three star tradestand award at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025. Shelves behind them display leather bags and unique Elephant Dung products among lush plants. Other people are visible in the background.
A woman sits cross-legged, smiling, whilst weaving a colourful basket by hand against a textured blue wall, her new year resolution diary resting nearby.
A woman stands smiling behind a wooden counter at a Paper High booth during the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, surrounded by metal bird crafts and decorative items.

Why our wholesale customers love working with us

How do I apply?

Order via Faire

Experience a seamless and flexible ordering process with Faire. New customers get 50% off (up to £150) and free returns on their first order, plus 1 year of free shipping. You’ll also get 60‑day payment terms on every order.

Shop Wholesale Prices

Shop Direct

Complete our easy‑to‑use online form to gain access to our trade website. We offer a low minimum order (£100), free UK delivery on orders over £300 (ex. VAT), and fast dispatch for all customers. Stock ethical, handmade products your customers will love.

Apply now

FAQs

At Paper High, we’re all about thoughtful, ethical retail, so we love working with businesses who share that spirit. We happily supply:

  • Independent high street shops
  • Boutique gift stores and lifestyle shops
  • Museums, galleries & heritage attractions
  • Visitor centres
  • Amusements
  • Garden centres

If you have your own retail space or your own online shop, you’re in exactly the right place.


Calling All Creatives

We love collaborating with makers! If you’re an artist, designer, or creative who adds your own artwork, personalisation, or magic to our products – and you sell through your own shop or your own website – you’re warmly welcome to apply for a trade account.

Whether you’re printing, engraving, embellishing, or creating something truly unique, we’re delighted to support your craft.


Where We’re Not Able to Supply

To keep things fair, we don’t offer trade accounts to anyone planning to resell our products on third-party marketplaces, including Etsy, Not On The High Street, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Faire, or similar platforms.

Our trade programme is designed specifically for retailers who sell through their own physical store or their own website.

Our minimum order threshold is set at £100 to ensure our warehouse team aren’t overwhelmed with smaller orders. We believe this is a fair and competitive minimum order price, and hope you’ll find more than enough products you love to reach it.

At the checkout we have two payment options, either by invoice or pay immediately.

We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Google Pay, and Apple Pay payment. 

We do not store any credit card or debit card information.

All financial transactions made via card use Stripe which means that you do not share your financial information with us. Find out more about how Stripe protects buyers.

We review every application we receive fairly and unbiased. This is to protect our current stockists and customers, as well as our brand ethos. Some of the checks we conduct:

  • We check our current stockists locations to ensure that we are not stocked in shops too close to each other. 
  • We also check your website, if you stated you wanted to list our products online, to make sure it is a secure and reliable site.
  • Our terms and conditions state that our trade customers cannot list our products on any third-party sites. If you stated in your application that you want to do this, we will decline it. 

If your application is declined, for any reason, we will contact you to let you know why. 

We review applications as quickly as possible – usually within a few working days.

We may get in touch if we need a little more information.

Yes. We currently supply retailers in a range of countries.

We aim to dispatch all orders within 1 working day and everything is sent tracked. 

International orders may take up to 14 days to be delivered. 

Total order amount excludes VAT

 

Orders up to £300

£300 to £500

 £500 to £1,000

over £1,000

UK (excluding below):

£10

Free

Free

Free

Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey:

£20

£40

Free

Free

EU (excluding below):

£20

£40

Free

Free

Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece:

£40

£60

Free

Free

Cyprus, Malta, and Rest of Europe:

£50

£80

£25

Free

Rest of the World:

£50

£80

£100

Free

We are a Fair Trade company and we want everyone to enjoy our products as much as we enjoy selling them, and as much as our producers enjoy making them! However, if you have any issue with your order, we will aim to solve it as soon as possible.

Please note that as they are handmade products, there will be some variation in their patterns and colours, and the items you receive may look slightly different to our photos. We love the fact that this means you get a unique product, and we hope you do too.

We are happy to offer our customers a 30 day return policy for any products, providing the products are in the same condition as they were received, and are still in the original packaging.

We are based in sunny Lewes, UK. All orders are dispatched directly from our warehouse, meaning that our small but mighty team can help if you have a particular request for your order. 

We use reputable couriers including DPD, DHL and Royal Mail.

We don’t usually send out samples, however if you’re a large retailer and you’d like to see the quality of our products first, please do get in touch via email so we can discuss this further.

We offer a range of personalisation options for our retail customers on selected products, however these options are currently limited for trade.

We are happy to discuss the possibility of bespoke personalisation if this is something you’re interested in. Please email us so we can discuss this further.

You do have the option to purchase all our products without personalisation.

Unfortunately not. To keep things fair for all our stockists, we don’t allow resale on third-party online marketplaces.

Our products are for your own shop or your own website only.

Yes! We love working with creatives who add their own artwork, personalisation, or design elements to our pieces.

As long as you sell through your own shop or website, you’re welcome to apply.

On 4 September 2024, we updated our T&C’s regarding imagery use. We didn’t make this decision lightly and, in short, the more our images are used online, the less control we have over them.

Unfortunately, we continuously find our images on websites that go against our core values and that we have no affiliation with, which is extremely concerning and worrying for us.

After hearing our trade customers feedback, we decided on the following:

  • First and foremost, we would prefer if you used your own images to sell our product(s) on your website.
  • However, if this is not possible or you’d prefer to use our imagery, you can do so but only if the following two conditions are met:
    1. That you do not use any images with models in.
    2. You must mention our brand on the product page if you are selling our product(s) on your website. 

To read our full image policy, please request a copy from our Ecommerce Team

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