Chiyogami 771Every 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,

like fabrics

which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami)

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

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

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

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

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

"Katazome-shi" literally means stencil-dyed papers

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

Many of the patterns contain highly symbolic imagery

They will easily flatten out when rolled in the opposite direction