Chiyogami 780Every 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,

which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami)

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 individual layers of colour are silkscreened on one by one requiring careful registration of screens

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

"Katazome-shi" literally means stencil-dyed papers

Using traditional kimono-printing techniques

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

Every sheet of our stunning Japanese Chiyogami paper is meticulously produced by hand

Not all papers are stocked in store - For more information on when your order may be ready to ship or pick up please click here

Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils