Thai PapersThailand's paper industry has grown quite rapidly in the past decade. The factories in northern Thailand offer both machinemade and handmade decorative papers, revolutionizing the Asian paper market by supplying a vast array of reasonably priced, traditional oriental styles that can be used in many different creative processes.
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Thai Banana
Thai Handmade
Thai Kozo
Thai Lightweight Petal Paper
Thai Mango Leaves
Thai Reversible
Thai Tamarine
Thai Unryu
Thai Unryu w/ Gold
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Machinemade in of 100% kozo with large pieces of banana bark inclusions. Thai Banana is crips and lightweight with two natural deckles. Available in a broad palette of colors. Perfect for nearly any creative process, especially for lampshades.
Thai handmade, or Saa, paper are made from 100% kozo fiber with various inclusions. To make each individual sheet, the kozo fibers are soaked beaten into pulp. The pulp is then taken ? by hand ? and laid onto a screen attached to a handmade wooden frame. In most cases, inclusions of flowers or leaves are added to the sheet. Each sheet is dried by the sun before it?s taken off its frame. Sheet size and weight vary from paper to paper. Please contact us for more information or for samples. Legion offers dozens of different Thai handmade papers in various combinations of colors, sizes and inclusions. Below are just some of the papers we offer.
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Machinemade in Thailand of 100% kozo. An all purpose paper for most printmaking applications.
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35gsm
25x37
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A thin, white base sheet with small pink petals & fern inclusions. A wonderful paper to use in invitations & announcements as an overlay.
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40gsm
26.5x23.25
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A very popular paper, Thai Mango is a colored base paper with large mango leaf inclusions. Machinemade of 100% kozo; two natural deckles.
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Made from two contrasting sheets of Unryu or Chiri that are hand laminated and then hand-creped. These sheets offer two color choices in one for bookbinders, collage artists and crafters. The papers are rough textured, strong and fibrous, yet easy to handle when gluing to other surfaces. Machinemade of 100% kozo.
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A colored base sheet with delicate tamarine petal and stem inclusions. The base paper is fibrous but smooth. Available in lightweight and heavyweight sheets
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Baby Blue
30gsm & 80gsm
25x37
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This fibrous, lightweight sheer paper is very popular for many decorative uses as well as for announcements, bookbinding, collage and chine colle. With its large sheet size, Thai Unryu is the perfect choice for artists who need a paper with a wide variety of uses. Machinemade from 100% kozo fiber, translucent yet quite strong. Legion offers a large selection of over three dozen colors in sheets and rolls.
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The same base paper as Thai Unryu, but with swirls of long koo fibers and the addition of fine metallic gold threads. Available in sheets only.