Many of us take what were once luxuries for granted – clean water from our taps, a warm bed or a hot meal, for example. So it may not cross our minds what a luxury commodity paper was only a few ...

Small-scale workshops making washi by hand could once be found all over Japan. But the arrival of modern machinery as the country opened to the West in the late nineteenth century led to a rapid ...

We’d encourage any photographer who is seriously interested in printing to purchase the A.I.J.P (Awagami Inkjet Paper) Sample Pack Pro and explore the range of papers it contains. We’re pretty sure at ...

Because washi is hard to break, damaged, old documents can be reinforced by attaching a piece of washi or sandwiching them between two sheets of the paper, Chinzei explained. For documents, ...

ECHIZEN, japan >> Kawakami Gozen, the goddess of paper, continues to inspire craftspeople in the Goka area of Echizen, Fukui prefecture, where the streets are lined with papermaking workshops. Legend ...

The Christmas tree made of Japanese "washi" paper is seen in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, on Dec. 5, 2021. (Mainichi/Takuya Kurozume) MINO, Gifu -- An about 4-meter-tall Christmas tree made of traditional ...

Once an indispensable part of daily life in Japan, ultra-thin washi paper was used for everything from writing and painting to lampshades, umbrellas, and sliding doors, but demand has plunged as ...

The traditional hand-made paper is manufactured from plants called kozo, or mulberry, which has fibres that are much longer than materials used for paper in the west such as wood and cotton. Once an ...