Chiyogami 846Every 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

Each sheet is formed

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like fabrics

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

For this reason

these elegant bold patterned papers were developed in Kyoto during the 20th century by an inspired soul

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

Our Chiyogami papers

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

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each sheet