Chiyogami 632Every sheet of our stunning Japanese Chiyogami paper is meticulously produced by hand. The individual layers of colour are silkscreened on one by one requiring careful registration of screens. The base paper is a combination of kozo and sulphite and the pigments used are fade resistant resulting in a strong, soft and versatile decorative paper ideal for many different applications! To learn more about how Chiyogami is made, click here. Chiyogami,

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Using traditional kimono-printing techniques

was developed in Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1867)

For this reason

The art of washi is an extremely labour intensive process starting with the harvest and preparation of kozo

are stored in bolts

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

They will easily flatten out when rolled in the opposite direction

5 x 11" hand cut sample of this paper is available

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A father and son make our Akebono papers in the traditional way in a small Japanese village

Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils