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2023 FIBER: Grown straight and tall in the Florida sunshine, this bark makes beautiful handmade Asian-style paper -- whether it be washi [Japanese-style paper], hanji [Korean-style paper], Amate or any other style of papermaking.
This year's fiber is really beautiful (and I'm not just saying that). It must be from all of the chicken manure that was shared by our chickens last year. It was harvested in late January by my husband and I in Gainesville, Florida and is sold in one-pound bundles. The finished paper is a beautiful, supple pale yellow [almost white] paper.
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Florida KOZO BARK - SCRAPED
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Because this bark has been soaked and scraped with a great deal of care, it is ready for the cook pot and requires a minimum of chiritori picking [i.e., removing fragments of unwanted exterior bark].
Kozo is the ‘common’ name used to describe the inner bark from the shrub/tree, Broussonetia papyrifera. For many centuries, this fiber has been used to make beautiful handmade paper [and before that, bark cloth] around the globe but especially in China, Korea, Japan, Indo-China, South Asia and the Polynesian islands.