Chiyogami 925Every 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,

Washi is the word for traditional papers made by hand

or mitsumata fibres

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Depending on its use

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

Itame is the Japanese word for ‘woodgrain’ and the juxtaposition of such a rough texture on this delicate

and the strongest

It is the most widely used fibre

A dense and extremely strong handmade kozo paper

5 x 11" hand cut sample of this paper is available with free shipping to North America

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Kozo (mulberry) is said to be the masculine element