Luxury lampshade using beautiful Japanese Chiyogami (Yuzen) paper; cream linen exterior, light blue/gold interior

Please click on my shop name above to see a wider selection. Hand-crafted lampshade using beautiful, hand-printed Japanese Chiyogami (Yuzen) paper. The diameter of the lampshade shown is 30cm and the height is 21 cm. I specialise in lampshades using luxury Japanese chiyogami paper as well as modern Italian paper designs. Most of the designs, papers, and linens you see in my Etsy shop can be mixed and re-combined to suit your room. Other sizes and shapes are often available. Pls get in touch with me via Etsy to discuss. Please choose either ceiling or floor/lamp use, as some of the patterns have a 'right' way up.

Vivid colours and beautiful patterns, often with metallic highlights, are the characteristics of chiyogami washi (Japanese paper), also known as yuzen washi.
Chiyogami washi is a hand-printed washi in which pigments are mixed to create each colour, and then dyed over and over by craftsmen using a number of moulds.
Although this is a very time-consuming process, it produces excellent colours and delicate patterns. Although nowadays some chiyogami washi is machine-printed, the paper that is used for these lampshades is carefully hand-dyed by craftsmen in Kyoto, one sheet at a time.

In Japan, the origin of the paper-dyeing technique is from one of the traditional techniques used to dye kimonos and obis in Japan, and is a dyeing method that expresses various colours on cloth as if drawing a picture. It is said to have been inspired by the painting style of Miyazaki Yuzenzai, a fan painter who gained popularity in Kyoto during the Edo period, and was applied to kimono designs.

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