Chiyogami 833Every 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,

"Katazome-shi" literally means stencil-dyed papers

and colour

For this reason

so no forests are depleted in the process

handmade paper makes for a truly beautiful pattern

are used primarily in the making of washi

This delicate

which very appropriately describes this paper most often used for collage and chigiri-e

it is reminiscent of ice on a frozen pond

such as cranes for long life and plum blossoms and pine boughs for beauty and longevity

The inner barks of three plants

the botanical name for bamboo is ‘sasa’