washi

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Japanese paper (washi).

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  • Explore Japanese art forms and creative disciplines with special workshops and demonstrations of ikebana flower arranging, origami paper folding, mataro ningyo wooden doll making, and washi ningyo paper doll making. —  Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  • It looks ready to challenge the time-space continuum -- particularly with its grille, which is either a handsome detail patterned after Japanese washi paper, or the warped cell windowshade left behind by a former tenant who never paid his security deposit. —  The Car Connection
  • There's a bit about a "Hebraic" quest in the desert, musings on the essence of the machine, a trope that compares the washi textures on the G37's interior panels to Ford using beef as upholstery, and a complaint about the trunk space that is captured by:
  • They and several friends from a younger generation piece together origami and traditional handmade washi paper into greeting cards, which they sell to help raise money for maintenance of the church building - the sole remnant of this once-thriving Japanese-American community. —  www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
  • No washi paper for us. —  House on a hill
 

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