Chiyogami 873Every 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,

like fabrics

which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami)

are stored in bolts

Our Chiyogami papers

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

"Katazome-shi" literally means stencil-dyed papers

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Using traditional kimono-printing techniques

Many of the patterns contain highly symbolic imagery

Every sheet of our stunning Japanese Chiyogami paper is meticulously produced by hand

Using persimmon-dyed kozo as the stencils