If you are shopping for shoji screens you have probably found pre manufactured screens that are inexpensive but do not fit your needs.
Making shoji screens sliding doors.
I wanted a higher end look but not a higher end price tag.
The construction of shoji japanese sliding doors requires intricate skills and attention to detail.
Today shoji screens are often used as sliding doors between rooms or to the outside as well as interior window coverings closet doors and freestanding screens.
This guide to creating shoji brings together both traditional insight and technical mastery of the craft from the perspective of an apprenticed sliding door maker.
Shoji style sliding closet doors from scratch.
We have been crafting shoji products in our los angeles workshop for over 40 years.
Usually crafted by placing rice paper over a wooden framework shoji screens allow light to filter through a room while still maintaining some level of privacy.
Achieve that asian influence you seek and get both safety and durability with our glass shoji screens.
Our custom shoji screens.
Our sliding doors windows and other shoji products have been installed in homes businesses and other venues throuhout the los angeles basin and orange county throughout southern california and the west coast and across the entire united states.
Instead of thin easily damaged paper shoji screens our asian style glass dividers doors and closets add a clean modern and durable asian touch to any room.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
Paint rice glue on one side of the kumiko structure.
Cut shoji paper to fit perfectly inside the frame and roll it up.
Custom made screens are beautiful but the craftsmanship that goes into making them does not come cheaply.
Place the end of the paper roll at the top of the kumiko and roll it down inside the frame.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
Press the paper onto the glued kumiko.