The team
Bethan buys everything in the shop. Iestyn wraps it, packs it, posts it and checks the Welsh in your card.
Owner and buyer
Bethan ran the shop at a national museum for eleven years and left when a supplier asked her to order ten thousand plastic dragons. She opened The Paper Dragon in the Royal Arcade in 2015.
She buys everything in the shop and she knows the makers by name. She will find you a present in about ninety seconds if you tell her one true thing about the person.
The counter, the wrapping, the Welsh
Iestyn came for a Christmas job in 2019, while finishing a degree in Welsh at Cardiff, and did not leave. He ties the bows, packs the parcels, and is the reason our post to Patagonia arrives.
If you are learning Welsh, he will talk to you in it for as long as you can stand, and check what you wrote in the card.
What we stock
If we cannot say who made it and where, it does not come in.
It has to be something a person would still want in five years.
Makers keep about 60 per cent, and we pay within fourteen days.
We have nothing against dragons. It is the plastic and the ten thousand of them.
Open every day but Sunday morning. Tell us the person and the budget and we will have you out in five minutes, wrapped.