Chiyogami 894Every 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)

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

are stored in bolts

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

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

Using traditional kimono-printing techniques

Many of the patterns contain highly symbolic imagery

They will easily flatten out when rolled in the opposite direction

soft and versatile decorative paper ideal for many different applications

Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils