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Hi everybody! How are you doing?
Should anyone tell me if washi paper (or rice paper) is that one we use in the kitchen to drop oil, to dry hands etc? Excuse me to ask you about but I didn't find this term anywhere.
And I'd like to know if anyone has tried to use used paper coffee filter to cover anything as heads, bodies of dolls or animals instead of newspaper or magazine paper?
Well, I'm trying to make a cat (I hope it will be a cat!!!!) and I'm covering it with that filter. Later I can tell you the result. I'm trying to make this way in order to recicling that material. What do you think about?
Thank for your help in advance.
Shali
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Washi, I understand, is a rice paper, very fine and moulds very well with some paste. Someone else will probably be much more experienced with it than me.
Coffee filter paper - yes, oh yes. It is strong, moulds well and has a great colour. Make sure you tear off any straight edges. In my house, if anyone throws a coffee filter paper in the bin, they're in trouble!!
DavidO
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Thank you for your ansewr. As you have written I'll wait for another definition for wishi / rice paper. :-))))
Rice paper, as I know, is a kind of paper very thin and used by japonese and chinese people but I don't know if, in this case, is the same paper.
By the way, at home, it's also "forbidding" to waste coffee filter paper and many things away!!!!!
Shali
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Hi Shali, Washi paper is a very light weight decorative paper made in Japan. (I don't think it is Chinese) It is the paper that Japanese lanterns (among other things) are made out of. There are many ways that the Japanese artisans use washi, all decorative and very beautiful- dolls, washi covered boxes, umbrellas etc. Washi paper ranges in price here in Australia from relatively cheap to quite expensive, and is always beautifully patterned with typical Japanese patterns. I don't know if you can get plain washi paper with no patterning, but I imagine you would be able to at a cheaper price too.
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