Paper


Glossary


1 AbacaA natural fiber that comes from the leaf stalks of the banana-like abacá plant, Musa textilis, also known as Manila hemp.
2 Akatosashi paper A handmade Japanese paper, produced in a naturally occurring dark tones, made with 70% Thai Kozo fiber and 30% Sulphite fiber by Osama Hamada in Kochi, Japan, perfect for conservation work and repair.
3 Barcham Green Family-run, handmade papermakers of Hayle Mill in Maidstone, UK from 1812 to 1987. Simon Barcham Green introduced the first alkaline sized mould-made watercolour and hand-made papers in the world. He developed many new papers for conservation purposes and worked closely with some of the leading private presses to produce bespoke papers including special watermarks.
4 Bicchu gampi paper More fully, Bicchu Torinoko Gampi Chiri Handmade Japanese Paper has four deckle edges and is unsized, however Japanese gampi can act like a sized paper. This exceptional paper is dried on wooden boards. The inclusions are called chiri and refers to small bits of the outer bark of gampi branches.
5 Cave Paper An independently owned handmade paper production studio operating since 1994, in Tucson, AZ, dedicated to making decorated and unusual sheets of high-quality paper for use by artists, bookbinders, and all types of designers.
6 Cristalla Transparent paper From Römerturm Feinpapier, Germany. This is a type of highly transparent paper, often used in luxury packaging or artistic applications, known for its ability to subtly showcase colours and details while maintaining a translucent quality, essentially allowing light to pass through with minimal obstruction that provides an alternative to plastic films.
7 Dieu Donné Dieu Donné is a leading non-profit cultural institution dedicated to serving established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking in Brooklyn, NY.
8 Fabriano With more than 750 years of history, 4 production plants in Italy, Fabriano is renowned for three significant breakthroughs: animal gelatine, the watermark, and the multiple hammer mill. Equally important are three unique manufacturing methods: handmade, mould-made machine, and Fourdrinier machine.
9 Gampi paper Gampi bark yields a strong, crisp sheet that is translucent, with almost no visible fibers.
10 Glassine A smooth, glossy paper that is transparent, allowing what’s inside or behind the paper to show through. A pulp-based material that has been mistaken for other substrates, such as wax paper, parchment, even plastic. Because of its unique look and feel, it may not seem like regular paper.
11 Hanji paper 한지 A traditional handmade paper from Korea made from the inner bark of the Paper Mulberry.
12 Hollytex A white, non-woven, spunbound polyester fabric.
13 Ingres d’Arches Made on a cylinder mould with quality close to that of paper made by craft methods. The slow turning of the cylinder enables the fibres to be deposited evenly and spread in all directions over the wire. The paper is therefore more homogeneous and has good dimensional stability. Only papermaking on a cylinder mould can produce paper with deckle edges.
14 Ise katagami 型紙The Japanese craft of making paper stencils for dyeing textiles It is designated one of the Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Japan.
15 Japanese moire paper A type of paper with a moiré pattern, typically using a high-quality Japanese paper base like washi which is known for its durability and unique texture.
16 Kami-Kawasaki Washi This paper has a history of over 1,000 years and was given the name because of its origin in Nihonmatsu City's Kami-Kawasaki. It has been used regularly as shoji paper (paper for sliding doors) because of its warmth and natural beauty derived from the Paper Mulberry, which is grown locally.
17 Katagami paper Synthetic cutting pattern paper for the stencil. Resists water, non-elastic.
18 Kozo Kozo may refer to a Paper Mulberry tree or a type of paper also termed washi, hanji, or rice paper.
19 Mitsumata paper Mitsumata has the shortest fiber (out of Kozo & Gampi) and yields smooth, dense papers great for parchment like papers.
20 Mulberry paper (see Hanji) The Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, syn. Morus papyrifera L. ) is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to Asia. The Paper Mulberry was a significant fiber crop in the history of paper. Known for its durability and longevity, it continues to be used in various traditional and contemporary paper-making practices today. It has been used for papermaking in China since sometime between the 2nd and 8th century, and in Korea, the oldest existing block print in the world (c. 751 AD) is printed on Hanji paper using its fibers.
21 Phumani Paper Meaning Reach Out in isiZulu Phumani is a community-based papermaking unit based at the University of Johannesburg, established in 1998 by Kim Berman. The unit makes papers from a range of fibres such as hemp, pineapple fibre, banana stem fibre, milkweed, cotton and sisal. The papermakers have developed a range of products utilizing fiber and paper as a medium.
22 Pulp painted paper A paper art technique that involves the process of creating pigmented pulp, combined with an adhesive and painting with the pulp onto a sheet of paper.
23 Shoji paper Paper for sliding doors in Japanese homes.
24 Somerset paper A world leading traditional 100% mould made cotton printmaking paper with high archival standards, suitable for limited edition relief, intaglio, lithography, letterpress and silkscreen printing from St Cuthberts Mill Ltd, Wells, Somerset, UK.
25 Tatoushi paper Wrapping paper for Japanese kimonos.
26 Toshaban-Genshi paper A translucent white tissue paper.
27 Twinrocker Handmade Paper A mill based in Brookston, Indiana, USA, established by Kathryn and Howard Clark in 1971. It was pivotal to the renaissance of hand papermaking in America by forming sheets from the finest cotton rag, in the centuries-old European tradition. It is famed for facilitating many of Claire Van Vliet’s Pulp painted artist’s books.
28 Tyvek Consists of synthetic flashspun high-density polyethylene -Olefin- fibers.
29 Uzu Kuchi Kozo Japan paper A100% Kozo fiber machine-made paper used for dyeing, as text pages or printing chine-collé due to its absorbency.
30 Velin Also known as wove paper, it has a smooth surface and when held up to the light no marks are visible. Well known examples include Arches Velin BFK Rives which is particularly well-suited to printmaking applications.
31 Washi A traditional Japanese paper made from the fibers of plants like the Mulberry, Mitsumata, and Ganpi.
32 Wove paper Paper made with a revolving roller covered with wires so woven as to produce no fine lines running across the grain.
33 Zerkall mould made paper German mould made papers suitable for printmaking and commercial print. The papers are internally sized, with a cotton and alpha cellulose content. The papers are watermarked.

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