The subject of Japanese papers is quite complex and , as we might suspect
here in America often gets over simplified. Many papers are hand made in
small batches and would be difficult to find here in the US. However there
are several sources and some will even sell you a sample book so you can
decide which paper suites your sensibilities before you try it.
Try:
Akio's Art Materials Import
714 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Kasuri Dyeworks
1959 Shattuck Ave
Berserkley (ooops, I'm showing my age!) 94704
Yasutomo & Company
500 Howard Street
San Francisco, 94105.
These came from the book, Japanese Bookbinding by Kojiro Ikegami,
(Weatherhill, ISBN 0-8348-0196-5) which was published in 1986 so they may
be out of date. That book has several pages devoted to Japanese papers and
may help you also.
The usual concerns about sizing, etc apply when using Japanese papers,
although I did get a rather wonderful effect by letting the sensitizer bleed
into an unsized tissue once.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Kimball <akimball@finebrand.com>
To: ALT-PHOTO-PROCESS-L@skyway.usask.ca
<ALT-PHOTO-PROCESS-L@skyway.usask.ca>
Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 6:18 PM
Subject: Koichiro Kurita and rice papers..
>Hi all-
>
>While wandering through the Scott Nichols gallery out here in San
>Francisco, CA I stumbled across some remarkable platinum/palladium
>prints by a person named Koichiro Kurita. The prints were done on an
>very thin "paper", in fact, it seemed more like rice paper than what I
>am commonly think of as paper (arches, bfk, etc..). Anybody know what
>kind of paper it is?
>
>And for that matter, I'd love to hear about papers which, though very
>interesting, aren't in the "canon" of Arches, Cranes, etc.. ideas
>anyone? Seeing that paper made me loathe the boredom that my Arches has
>infected me with.
>
>-Adam
>
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