Konnayaku

Brushing Konnayaku with tender love on a beautiful handmade Gampi sheet. Konnayaku is a type of starch which gives paper strength and makes it water resistant.

Making Handmade Paper

The process of handmade papermaking is a bit like cooking, in that, there are ingredients, and you put them together to create something that is more than the sum of its parts. It creates an artistic means of expression in my work.

In order to make sheets of paper, the fiber is soaked, cooked, cleaned, pounded then formed into sheets and finally dried. All these steps in aggregate takes over 24 hrs. I call this, A TRUE LABOR OF LOVE process.

Fibers: Kozo, Gampi and Iris.