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Traditional Japanese Paper Making Workshop

A traditional Japanese paper-making workshop features rows of wet paper sheets on wooden boards leaning against each other, with a large vat of pulp in the foreground and natural light streaming through a paper-paned window.

A washi studio in Echizen in morning light, wet sheets pressed to drying boards leaning in rows, kozo fibre suspended in a vat, a bamboo screen resting on its frame, cold light from a paper window raking the damp boards, 35mm See more

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