Not made for art. But you asked, so here it is.

New in the shop: 20 sheets of shaved red pine with hinoki cord, plus the Midori MD Drawing Pen in three widths.

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Sheets of shaved red pine wood tied with hinoki cypress cord

Hi everyone, this is Taka!

Something a little different this week. These red pine sheets were not made for art at all. In Japan, kyogi, thin sheets of shaved wood, have long been a kitchen material, used to wrap and hold food. But over the past months a handful of you who paint and make things asked whether we could carry them, because the bare wood grain does something paper cannot. So here they are.

Each set has 20 sheets of red pine, about 42 by 12 cm and only 0.2 mm thin, along with 10 lengths of hinoki cypress string. People reach for them for watercolor, collage, mixed media, and wrapping, and the string lets you bind or hang whatever you make. Honestly, how you use them is up to you. If they find a place in your next project, that would make me happy.

And one more thing for anyone who draws. The Midori MD Drawing Pen is now in the shop in three widths, 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 mm. It is built for MD Paper, with a water based pigment ink that turns water resistant once it dries, so you can lay a clean line over a watercolor wash without it smudging. It is the pen for fine detail, sketching, and illustration, and a natural companion if you already keep an MD notebook.

Warmly,
Taka