Blog

This is a blog to inform you about Ono Shoten's summer holidays. Our company will be closed from August 9th to 17th, 2025.If you have any inquiries regarding washi paper, komagami paper, or custom paper product production during the closure, please use our inquiry page or fax us. We will respond as soon as possible after the holidays.

We would like to inform you about our summer holidays in August 2024. We will be closed from the 10th to the 18th.

This is a blog about a visit to a papermaking artisan's workplace where they made a prototype of handmade washi paper for interior products. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I visited a papermaking artisan's workplace for the first time in about six years. This time, they layered two or more layers of washi paper and made a prototype using a papermaking method called Sukikomi, which is different from regular washi paper.

This is an example of a pasted box made for the US market using Chiyogami paper and Japanese Mingei paper.

This is an example of a small, lidded box made with Chiyogami and Mingei paper. Each box is palm-sized and carefully handcrafted.