Chiyogami 842Every 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

In Japanese Akebono means ‘dawn’ and after seeing these delicate

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wispy clouds or sun reflecting on a pond

handmade translucent paper features a simple tone-on-tone leaf pattern

The kozo fibre is an unusually long and durable fibre and contributes to the strength of these seemingly delicate papers

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

This delicate

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

rich colours

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