Chiyogami 156 arrows fashionable kimono textiles being produced

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

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

Many of the patterns contain highly symbolic imagery

Chiyogami 156 arrows fashionable kimono textiles being producedEvery 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! Chiyogami, which means thousand generation (chiyo) paper (gami), was