Yuzenshi: Birds, Irises & Black Print

Available from The Red Balloon Company when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Yuzenshi (or Yuzen) papers are made in small studios throughout Japan. It is a long-time tradition of making these papers. The base is a lovely white Japanese washi, and then the image is screen printed for each color to create the image. With some of the ink having mica in them to get them look like even richer, are adding small flakes of mica. These papers can be used in all sorts of paper crafting projects, the paper is easy to cut and goes on with a favorite glue. But they can also be used i