http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washi
WIKI
IS ON TOP OF EVERYTHING FINE!! They seem to have covered the
WASHI BARK PAPER CRAFT & ART EXPLOSION. When an Ontario canada crafts
commune goes nuts using WASHI in different ways, it's a whole new artworld
babeeee! WHAT IS WASHI? It seems that many trees not just in Japan have
cottony pulp under their bark. (I just saw an Okayama Japan artisan -master
on a TV show and spotted freeform branches arranged in a cylinder form,
but all crookedy and bendy, not neat like the one to the left...
with this handmade paper inside of their circumferance, all lit up with
amber electrical lights. And my Bazaar brain went into a paroxysm of delight.)
Many Trees seem to have a pulp in their bark (The list is anywhere you
google paper, bark trees, hand made papers.) The pulp is just under the
bark, soft, cottony fibres which are boiled into paste which is screeded
onto old window screens, (it looked like that on TV,) with a piece of straight
lumber. The bark fibres dry on the screen and amazingly suit the manufacture
of painted art and also fabrication of light fixture shades that are so
gallery artistic, they'd bring in huge revenues
Twigs, branches made into a cylinder small leaves woven into the washi, and an electric light.
http://www.washi-art.com/light/light.html
Make the paper yourself, use branches from the garden
http://www.handmadejapan.com/e_/features_/eft004_02.htm
A lucrative field. Stay at home, make a dynamic living, Go to craft fairs, wholesale to boutiques, decorator's row, which many cities have.
Nurseries get a night light,
http://www.magiclamp.ca/images/lamps/aladdin-rotating-lamp.jpg
This one rotates.
THIS NEXT one colored like a peacock, has been painted with translucent
paint.
http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/c/0/0/14f/0/AAAADAxFFroAAAAAAU8MEA.jpg
A Canadian art commune that has their very own online, (these are free btw,) crafts blog and auction site ....an art council that sells washi art of all kinds, ONLINE. So Washi has gone InterNashi!
http://occwashilockdown2008.blogspot.com/2008/06/washi-lockdown-auction.html
THAT whole commune in itself is a mind blower. A group of artists joining for a website. Today, POWWEB.COM offers a 3$ a month webhosting service WITH domain name free. No way to contact them that I could see. Let me know if you see an email addie there. I want to tell them their commune just blew my mind.
Here is the more typical Chinese lantern, instructions to make them of Washi paper. And you do know, you can make your own paper out of all kinds of things.
http://www.ehow.com/how_7855726_make-wooden-molds-japanese-lanterns.html
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