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I keep seeing cool paper over at Paper Mojo - the latest are these interesting holey “Fiori” papers. I wasn’t able to find an article that talks expressly about …

I was looking around on Paper Mojo the other day for some interesting textured paper and found this Green and Gold Bodhi Leaf Print Lotka paper just waiting for me. Handmade in Nepal, these 20 by 30 inch sheets of beautiful …

I saw these wonderful stencil-dyed sheets of paper featured over at the Paper Mojo site today. They are based on techniques developed in Japan and are called “Katazome-Shi” paper. What exactly is Katazome-Shi?

I looked up several definitions of it online. Basically, it is a technique of stenciling paper that involves the application of some kind of paste (usually rice flour based) through a prepared stencil. The stencil is usually made out of a particular paper called Kozo which is a fiber that comes from mulberry trees and is very popular in papermaking in Japan.

This paper is first treated with persimmon tannin, and then a stencil of the overall design is cut into the paper. Then, I believe they use the paste in order to block out the sections of the stencil that they don’t want color transfered onto. They do each color one at a time. This seems similar to silkscreening, and I have also read that it is similar to how kimonos were made traditionally.

Mulberry Paper is an increasingly popular textured type of paper that is often used by today’s scrapbookers to provide a feathery and fuzzy embellishment to their projects. I’ve seen it called Unryu paper(?) as well as interchanged with Rice paper but most places also say that …