【体験】小川和紙 Kogawa Japanese Paper

Field trip to Saitama

for making Kogawa Japanese Paper

well it is just to experience how to remake paper

We arrive a place call 

Ogawa-machi

小川町

Where a town  famous for Japanese Paper

和紙のふるさと

It is located 2 hours from Tokyo by train

(very far T^T)

There are lots of type of Japanese paper

such as

papers to make paper dolls

Hanging paper dolls etc....

Here our Japanese paper making starts!!!!!!!

The person in charge is explaining the process of making to us

In this process

we are making postcards

There are special mold

for making the postcards

first insert the mold into the special paper liquid

Then balance the liquid in every mold

Then the person in charge will help to press

away the excess water

and left the wet paper for us to design



Here is where we experience out Japanese postcard making



We are free to design anything

on the wet paper

This is my design

After finished design

just pass this thing to the person in charge

and they will help us baked the paper

to become the real postcard

that can be use

It will takes some time for the post card to be dry

So basically you cannot bring back your post card on that day

unless you have enough time to wait though

haha

well just a small postcard making experience for me

It is quite fun (^^,)