Chiyogami 933Every 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,

Each sheet is formed

and colour

which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami)

For this reason

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 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

A dense and extremely strong handmade kozo paper

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

making them ideal for covering books and boxes

“Arashi” translates as storm

Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils