Chiyogami 845Every 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,

and certainly each batch of handmade papers will have slight variations in weight

and regenerates annually

such as tea tins

The lovely Hemp Flower pattern of this soft and lightweight but surprisingly strong tissue is reminiscent of snowflakes

The art of washi is an extremely labour intensive process starting with the harvest and preparation of kozo

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

the protector

it is reminiscent of ice on a frozen pond

It is the most widely used fibre

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

the botanical name for bamboo is ‘sasa’

While these papers don't actually have any silk fibres in them