 COMBED PAPER (Sukigami) |
 PATCHED PAPER (Yaburegami) |
Kami
In this lightweight fabric, strips of Mino washi handmade paper are woven into a sheer polyester organdy base. Mino washi - paper from the Mino region near Gifu in the mountains of central Honshu - is one of the strongest traditional papers in Japan and as such has long been used for shoji paper sliding doors. NUNO uses finely slit yarns of this paper for wefts, then has a metal foil brocade specialist weaver do the actual finishing. This ensures that the paper strips lie uniformly flat and give a beautiful soft lustre to the final fabric.