Chiyogami 887 274 A father and son make

A father and son make our Akebono papers in the traditional way in a small Japanese village

A dense and extremely strong handmade kozo paper

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

are stored in bolts

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

Chiyogami 887 274 A father and son makeEvery 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,