Watch the Washi Making Technique Live!

[kasonyaj1]

Paper is made from water?!?!? :O

[Everfalling]

@kasonyaj1 it's a water and pulp mixture. that plate she puts in the water is a screen that catches the pulp and drains the water.

[BrazoDelDiablo]

Amazing!

[TheMadFedje]

I watch the weirdest shit on monday nights...

[lukkha1]

@TheMadFedje thanks for calling the traditional craft of my country the weirdest shit. this is just interesting for me to notice that while your ancestors where still living in trees mine were writing poetry on this kind of weird shit. those two ladies have more talent in one finger then you will never have in your entire body and brain so it would be wiser to show some respect or just at least avoid this type of useless comment . looks to me like you are the weird shit.

[TheMadFedje]

@lukkha1 Calm down lol i didn't mean it was the weirdest shit, I meant it was the most Stupid Shit.

[StrikaAmaru]

@TheMadFedje Obvious troll is obvious...

Dude, the sheer irony of you calling anything stupid is the only reason you're not getting a spam and a thumbs down from me.

[TheMadFedje]

@StrikaAmaru Thanks babe.

[keira2681]

The Japanese do everything well...

[enjoiorange]

Where can I see the entire process

[XphR]

Very cool, thank you for sharing this almost lost art.

[robek518]

Watching the making of paper & brushes - a real magical experience.

[reasoning777]

Now that's getting to be a forgotten art ! If I could afford it, and had a need for it, I would pay the price for any quality bespoke merchandise just for the effort and knowledge that went into the production, now that needs to be paid for. Well worth it.

[chuckadave]

Awesome

[hanaman1]

thats a youtube video, how can it be live?

[T3RM1N83R]

good point :D

[edster1973]

using the leaf rather than her fingers so she would not tear the paper sealing it to the metal and it said that the leaf also helps with natural acid to keep edges from rolling or browing because ever thing is plant based no chem.

[hynmay]

So that's how they make rice paper, very nice! Though I'm sure most of us don't have machinery like this so we can make it. LOL, hynmay

[uoytnawi]

i saw (american) paper kit & a demo . i also watched the traditional way to make Japanese paper . ideas were similar , except that the first usedmore paraparnalia , japanese seemed zen-ish. well, georgeous paper is what we're after anyway...

[Ddog636]

This is a fascinating process. Thank you.

[jasutinsan]

why do they use a leaf when they smooth out the paper? and what kind of leaf? does anyone know?

[twosixteen]

It's not a leaf. It's a brush.

[jasutinsan]

i mean after the brush, she clearly using a green leaf of some sort to smooth out the edges of the paper

[bluepond5]

I see it there. She is certainly using a green leaf... Well, I am Japanese but it's the first time for me to watch this kind of thing. To tell you the truth, I have no idea. LOL.

She is obviously using it to smooth out the wrincles, huh? ;-)

[edster1973]

Washi is the Japanese word for the traditional papers made from the long inner fibres of three plants, wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper. As Japan rushes with the rest of the world into the 21st Century, and more modern technologies take over, machines produce similar-looking papers which have qualities very different from authentic washi. As of the fall of 2008, there remained fewer than 350 families still engaged in the production of paper by hand

[chardnj]

@edster1973 or Washi.........Washing paper heheheh

[pugs1not2drugs]

@edster1973 google much?

[jasutinsan]

why do they use a leaf when they smooth out the paper? and what kind of leaf? does anyone know?

[hrmfaeryqueen]

Great video! I am a book restorer and use this paper and other Japanese papers for repairs. It is amazing to see this process. Thank you!

[quique582]

WTF!

[Emhoctiengnhat]

I am very interested in making washi paper. Can you give me more detail about this product. Thank you very much

[slycoldreynardine]

There is an excellent book by Tim Barrett that just came back into print this year called "Japanese Papermaking". Well worth reading if you are interested in the subject.

This video was great, thanks for posting it.