#mulberry paper

[zegalba]

Hiroshi Senju: Waterfall (2009)

With incredible delicacy, Hiroshi pours translucent paint onto Japanese Mulberry paper creating the sensation of unrestrained movement.

[drawgabbydraw]

Layers but IRL not Photoshop layers!!!

It was easy to lay everything out and it was hard to actually adhere it. I've searched for what adhesives collage artists use, but weirdly cannot get results that are useful to me (everything seems more suited to sturdier media, not delicate mulberry paper like I've used here). So I did what I could with a glue stick and a little tape dispenser that I think is for scrap booking. You roll it along the paper and it leaves a strip of stickiness. Neither of these is precise enough. Anyway, learning as I go.

[starfragment1979]

I wasn't intending these two collages to be companion pieces. My chronic illness means that everything I do takes forever, but collage is a great medium for that, because I can glue this thing down today, then another thing tomorrow, etc. And I made these two over such a long period of time--I started "A Dead Mouse" in May and finished "Social Action" in July--that I wasn't really thinking about the one when I made the other. But not only do they kinda go together thematically, the lines of embroidery match up almost perfectly.

(both are 6"x8" hand cut analog collage with mulberry paper, found paper and embroidery floss)

[octarinespill]

Hwalam Moon - A Desert of Night & Light, 2022

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[reneserranorodriguez03]

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Graphite / paper

45 X 60 centimeters

(18 x 24 inches)

2024

[milkywayrollercoaster]

Mulberry Paper Factory

Samarkand

Uzbekistan

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[theegarlicwitch]

Carved a little strawberry jam jar tonight and printed it on this cute mulberry paper. 😌🍓✨

[2eyedcyclops]

Well hello Tumblr, it's been a while since I posted some of my own work!

I was commissioned to create this piece many months ago, but finding the right paper was a huge challenge, and then my life got weird. I'm so happy with how this turned out though, and I learned some new things!

[storiesbetween]

decoupaged a notebook for my next WIP 👍🏻

[zegalba]

Hiroshi Senju: Waterfall (2009)

With incredible delicacy, Hiroshi pours translucent paint onto Japanese Mulberry paper creating the sensation of unrestrained movement.

[drawgabbydraw]

Stargazer. Click to see the detail images a little bigger.

I wish I could say this had some secret meaning, but the meaning is I'm enjoying using new combinations of material in my art. These translucent papers layered together is so ethereal. I only adhered the top of the faces so you can gently lift the layers up to see the faces underneath. Everything else here is ink blobs, watercolor, some line drawing. Messy pencil and eraser marks abound.

[starfragment1979]

More of my art. I actually made this a while ago but am just getting around to posting it now.

"Smile"

6"x8" hand cut analog collage with mulberry paper, found paper and ink.

[tanuki-kimono]

@sidescout Paper clothing is a fascinating subject!!!

Historically, Japan had no sheep farming (=no wool), silk was an upper class fabric, and cotton as not indigenous plant took a long time to spread among the population.

For ages, people used other fibers to make clothes, such as hemp, linen, but also wisteria, and other plants. Also see Ryuukyuu's bashô or Ainu's nibutani bark:

In that context, where paper was also made from plant fibers, that somebody started weaving paper is not surprising ^^

I am not a specialist on the subject, but of what I know of, paper threads were often made from sturdy 楮紙 kôzogami (made from paper mulberry tree), though any paper could be recycled as thread if sturdy enough.

Paper was first made following this process. Paper sheets were then turned into thread like shown below and then turned into skein:

I am not sure when in the process, but at some point paper was made more durable by treating it with 蒟蒻 konnyaku (konjac) or even sometimes 柿渋 kakishibu (persimmon juice). Both substances turn paper near waterproof! Konnyaku also gives durability (see もみ紙 momigami) and cloth-like flexibility suitable for 紙子 kamiko (paper clothing).

Great example of everyday noragi (work clothes, worn by farmers for ex.)​ from Taisho period. Note the makisode sleeve shape, offering freedom of mouvement!

You can see the close-up of the weave, made from asa (bast-fiber like hemp or linen) and kamiyori (twisted paper thread���). Despite its "rugged" materials, weave is delicately interlocked with regular black stripes.

The coat also presents geometrical sashiko (white quilting), both reinforcing easily worn areas (collar, hems, inner center back), and decorating the garment.

PSA for writers: please please please don't put characters doing manual labour in "silk" kimono. I'll be forever grateful ;)

[sunlilys]

ramona nordal. candy tuft, 2022.

[beatriceportinari]

Glaucus Atlanticus or sea swallow, origami, one square sheet of paper