Chiyogami 083Every 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,

Using traditional kimono-printing techniques

and colour

While beautiful and decorative – perfect for framing – these papers are also incredibly strong

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

so no forests are depleted in the process

To learn more about how Katazome-shi is made

and the strongest

fashionable kimono textiles being produced in the Yuzen area of Kyoto inspired the papermakers to produce small-scale paper imitations intended for use on dolls and tiny household items

The fashionable kimono textiles being produced in the Yuzen area of Kyoto inspired the papermakers to produce small-scale paper imitations intended for use on dolls and tiny household items

The inner barks of three plants

“Arashi” translates as storm

The fibres in Arashi are coarse and variegated