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PROCESS
High quality Japanese metallics are traditionally made by laminating sheets of
gold or silver to hand-made paper, shredding the paper, and then wrapping that
paper around a silk core. The gilded paper, which is made from long-fiber
mulberry root, may also be used flat in the weave.
In more modern times, the gold may be vaporized and essentially electroplated to
the substrate, sometimes a synthetic, which is then wrapped around the silk.
To the far right you will find three categories: the gold threads described
above; threads referred to as urushi, which are low grade gold, other metal
alloys, or lacquer on paper; and the fabrics woven with these precious threads.
These come from the prestigious weaving houses of Kyoto and are all very high
quality.
The sheets are then shredded into thread-thick bands and wrapped around a
silk-thread core.
