Chiyogami 813Every 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,

such as tea tins

To learn more about how Chiyogami is made

which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami)

and aided by paste and "Kojiro" (soy bean juice)

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

these elegant bold patterned papers were developed in Kyoto during the 20th century by an inspired soul

the pigments absorb deeply into the paper to produce long-lasting colour and the unmistakable look of a print truly made by hand

making them ideal for covering books and boxes

The base paper is a combination of kozo and sulphite and the pigments used are fade resistant resulting in a strong

They will easily flatten out when rolled in the opposite direction

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Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils