Chiyogami 938Every 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,

handmade paper and you will see the resemblance to a bamboo stalk

and colour

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

The pattern of this delicate

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

and the strongest

it is reminiscent of ice on a frozen pond

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

each sheet

“Arashi” translates as storm

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