The Making of Kozo Natural Handmade Paper | Studio Vlog 12

[@casoriginal]

Even though you do not show all your steps, I really appreciate what you do show. I've been contemplating on learning and seeing this, I now know I do not have the space. I will just enjoy through your videos ❤

[@naurrinn]

You seem to have a lot of patience🥺💖

[@SoftlyStudio]

Hehe I think I do 🙈

[@sudreahmerritt7606]

Dang this is art and passion. So beautiful, awesome job!

[@anguswalsh6067]

The beauty in each of those sheets is just so mesmerizing. I can't say enough how beautiful they are and how they just take my breath away🥺🦔💜✨Also, the process seems to be repetitive and tiresome but also soothing and healing in its own way. I love your video a lot and I can't wait for another one in the future🦔💜✨🥺

[@SoftlyStudio]

It really excites me making Kozo especially. It’s a labour of love honestly so no matter how tiring it is you just want to do more 🥰

[@meaculpa5563]

Oh those beautiful hardworking hands. Video is soothing as always.

[@SoftlyStudio]

Thank you so much 🥰❤️

[@veronicahodges4540]

Lovely video and would love to try Koro one day. Love your studio - looks like in a cold country. Papermaking is my soul soothing place to be for self. Enjoy.

[@SoftlyStudio]

hahha its a very hot country but we have AC on all the time so it does get chilly especially when your hands are in the water 😊 And it really is. All I want to do is make paper all day 🙈Enjoy it too. ❤️

[@beautybug1831]

So much work, but the final product is def worth it... 200% P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N 😉💖👍 !!! Thank you for sharing your creative/working process with us!

[@SoftlyStudio]

I thought so too. Like i would do it all over again to make this paper 😍❤️

[@lyvvyy]

Wow so cool ✨

[@삐야프]

I'm always enjoying the healing videos.

[@lenirebynica]

Beeeeen waiting for this OMG!! Please upload more frequently. 😂 This is sooo therapeutic and amazingly beautiful. 💓

[@SoftlyStudio]

I will try my best! Thank you for waiting for me 😭❤️

[@lenirebynica]

@@SoftlyStudio Oh my! You noticed me, Shereena. 💓💓💓 What Kozo fiber is this? Is it Thai or the Japanese kozo fiber? Thank you. :)

[@SoftlyStudio]

@@lenirebynica It is unbleached Thai 🤎

[@lenirebynica]

@@SoftlyStudio Oh! Okay. Thank you. :)

[@Soapartisan875]

I love artisan created material .This paper is gorgeous .

[@raylagood]

Literally the most therapeutic and gorgeous video! I am so Inlove with your handmade papers! Your business has grown so much!

[@SoftlyStudio]

Thank you so much my dear. I'm glad you love them ❤️❤️❤️

[@teresitalamas5304]

Amazing lots of work but you are a master. Thank you for sharing your time and talent. Where are the kittens? I love watching them.

[@SoftlyStudio]

hehe they were sleeping the whole time 🙈I need to dedicate an entire video just of them 😊

[@theresa_lili]

Great video!! Thank you for sharing with us. The paper turns out beautifully.

[@SoftlyStudio]

I was quite happy with it and want to experiment more with it next time 😊❤️

[@theresa_lili]

@@SoftlyStudio I hope you share again. I watched your video on processing orders. I really enjoyed it. You have a lot of beautiful items in your shop. Looking forward to ordering. I already know its going to be hard to decide.

[@sinaatmosphere4886]

it so pretty great to have a daily routine like this😍 meaningful day❤️

[@SoftlyStudio]

I don't get to make paper all the time but I truly enjoy the days I do. I hope to spend more days making paper 😊❤️

[@chillisauce2658]

loving the new addition to your studio!! was so excited for you when i saw you had a hydraulic press! you’re one step away from a hollander beater 😁 thank you for sharing this lovely and cinematic vlog!

[@SoftlyStudio]

Oh i have been trying to get one for over a year 😭There's a huge waiting list for the ones I want to get. but hopeful this year my papermaking studio will be complete 😍

[@AleeCeeStudio]

Yeeesss!!! Another video! I've always wanted to make kozo paper but I didn't realize there were so many steps! I love this and can't wait to see what else is in your future!

[@SoftlyStudio]

hehe I didn't include all the steps either. It definitely takes a little longer but the results are totally worth it 😍

[@lissetezapata9956]

Hermoso trabajo!! cuanto dedicación y paciencia para tan hermoso resultado!! felicidades

[@rahayur26]

These papers are looking great 👍🏻 👍🏻. Shereena, thank you so much for sharing how to make kozo handmade paper. I can’t wait to use it 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@SoftlyStudio]

Hello my dear. Thank you for watching and ordering them! I hope you will like them in person as well 😍

[@rahayur26]

Absolutely Shereena, I just have time to sit down and will start journaling today 🤎🤎🤎

[@nzlaslsbla_]

Wow I really love your videos 😍 could you please tell me, what kind of stuff that I need to make a handmade paper? Because I realllllly want to make it by myself. I have a lot of scrap paper in my house...

[@miracacabilos3133]

i love your videos it's like when i'm watching your videos my anxiety and stress starts to fade away when i watch it..Do some more interesting videos🧚🏻‍♀️🖤

[@LovkynaPeral]

Hard work 👍🤞💚🙏🤗😘

[@SoftlyStudio]

My assistants decided to sleep the whole time 😼

[@LovkynaPeral]

@@SoftlyStudio can you imagine how hard work it is to be assistent/controler? 🤨 Of course 🐾 is sleeping 😂, somebody have to done other work 😁😉, ehm... You! 😁😘😘

[@SoftlyStudio]

@@LovkynaPeral Hahah exactly! Humans don't understand how hard a life for cats is like 😂❤️

[@LovkynaPeral]

@@SoftlyStudio finally you can start to understand need of your Hard working Assistents 😁😅🤣🤗😏💚😜😘

[@JacquiWil]

You must have been tickled pink with the results ... totally satisfying and they look super.

[@SoftlyStudio]

Definitely 😍 Really expected to go all wrong 😂

[@angelicamontecino8284]

Esto es verdaderamente hermoso. Saludos desde Chile 🌷🇨🇱🦋

[@karlamaroto9670]

Hopefully you will come to that point soon. There s many of us making use a of very limited and free resources in our areas to make a living and it will come handy in developing countries like where I live with hardly any oportunities at all to have free tutorials, for instance in this matter. Thank you!

[@SoftlyStudio]

There are lots of resources already available online. Don't just search for videos but read articles or books too. The information in them is invaluable and plus they'll teach you better technique than videos found here on youtube 🤎

[@shanannwilliston250]

I love your videos so much! Would you mine sharing a tutorial on how you record and edit? Wishing you all the best!

[@wisahour]

I've never made my own paper, this tutorial is very useful

[@rachaelshay7649]

Thank you for your sharing your experience with the neri in the description. Ill be watching the video many times in the future edit: Also ive been watching you for a long time and girl, your videos have gotten even better. brilliant editing and shots.

[@ruthieart7292]

This is amazing!

[@SoftlyStudio]

Thank you ♥️♥️♥️

[@cloudadida3435]

i love this video! my teacher also taught us how to make paper from kozo trees and it was a lot of fun! but i wonder what paper (the wet ones under many waterbottles) you use to separate the just-made kozo paper ( in school we just used old newspaper haha!) thanks!

[@bellissimajournal5352]

Amazing hard work! 👍🏻

[@annzarro8331]

Very beautiful paper

[@mafish7962]

Beautiful ❤

[@user-ld8gr7hd6j]

When will you restock your journals? Absolutely in love with your work ethics and craft!

[@SoftlyStudio]

I restocked one of them 😊❤️

[@springdawnstudio]

It's very nostalgic for me to watch this. I guess that you have learnt this from Japan? :-) I used to make paper like this from milk/juice cartons. Amazing how you do it in abroad. just an interest, what is the white paper/material at 1:58 that you place between wet papers you made?

[@reginalacerda5735]

Gosto muito do seu trabalho!!!!

[@SrtaPeccavi]

Could we have a tour of your studio?! 🖤😍

[@SoftlyStudio]

I definitely intend to film this studio soon 😍

[@josefierro5981]

Wow! Your video is so amazing! Could you tell me please what is the liquid that appears in the minute 1:15?

[@SoftlyStudio]

It's synthetic Neri, or Formation Aid. I wrote a little about it in the description.

[@liliapuentes4722]

beatifull molde and deckle, where is it from?

[@pippikrumeluss5167]

The paper is beautiful! Could you tell me where the ladle frame is from?😍😍😍

[@SoftlyStudio]

Oh its from a German papermaking supplier. I linked his website on my previous papermaking video ❤️

[@pippikrumeluss5167]

@@SoftlyStudio thank you very much!😘💕

[@ngtm011]

Wow, they seem so soft and they are gorgeuos, you have so many materials! I love this: 6:06⥰⥰⥰

[@SoftlyStudio]

hehe thank you! I can't wait to make more of them 😊❤️

[@teanatran5227]

Oh, so pretty 😍 I love papers and wanna make my owns Btw, what kind of liquid u use at 1:10 Thanks a lot ❤

[@maureenthompson6152]

What is it that you used to size this. I'm curious.... They came out lovely

[@SoftlyStudio]

Oh so that is not to size. I used my normal internal sizing but I didn't film it. This is a deflocculant to allow the fibers to disperse evenly in water or else the long fibers would just clump together. And it also helps to slow the drainage. I used a synthetic version of Neri, called formation aid but a natural one would be from the root of a tororo-aoi plant. They're mainly used for bark fibers in eastern papermaking as the fibers are long but wouldn't work well with shorter length fibers like cotton. But it does not size your papers so you will need to use a sizing agent as well.

[@sollc1708]

Beautiful. I have two questions: in minute 7.59 what's this liquid? Is it starch? And what material are these black sheets you use to flatten your paper? Thank you very much for sharing your hard work making paper and editing them!! I know it's time consuming too!!

[@marsbeads]

There’s a lot of info in the description.

[@SoftlyStudio]

It's synthetic Neri or formation aid. and yes I linked an article that can explain more in my description. The black sheets are just thick cardboard that I previously bought but were very thick to use as backing boards 😂 But I find them very useful to use in my press because they're quite stiff. You don't really need to press them separately but I like to do that because it helps soften and smooth both sides of each sheet.

[@SoftlyStudio]

@@marsbeads Thank you 🙏🏽❤️

[@GoldenThreads1]

Nicely done

[@SoftlyStudio]

Thank you ❤️

[@myr.aguila]

What boards did you use to press and sandwich the papers? It looks so water-resistant.

[@amyw4816]

inspiring

[@ahyrieann2492]

I am inlooove with the process T-T

[@SoftlyStudio]

Polyester felt alternative ❤️

[@ahyrieann2492]

@@SoftlyStudio thank you for answering :))

[@Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach]

Thank you.

[@LeilaAMMartin]

What a process! That whole setup looks like quite an investment 😂 How do you get the kozo? Is that something you can just order?

[@marsbeads]

There’s a lot of info in the description.

[@SoftlyStudio]

Oh, you know how extra I can be 😂 No but I want to increase production and really make more paper or goods with my own papers. It's kind of the direction I'm leaning towards. I got the fibers from Carriage House Papers. But it actually comes from a paper mulberry plant which I think is quite popular in Asian countries.

[@Ahnafdnazwa]

Hi ... what kind of tools is that? Mean for pressing paper

[@angela14962002]

💗💗💗❣

[@miracacabilos3133]

are you happy doing this works?

[@SoftlyStudio]

Yes I am 😍

[@vestergarcia]

Hi can you please share your measurement for sizing liquid thank you.

[@parthasarathikamar9211]

Can anyone tell me the name of the sticky liquid which is used as a binder or paper pulp ???

[@dobrewzory4300]

[@julienneomori4132]

New subscriber vudeo suggestion how i made my mould and deckle

[@loadapish]

Did u honestly not smell it as soon as it was dry?

[@rydnose8959]

Wowww, amazing!! (*˘︶˘*).｡*♡

[@SoftlyStudio]

Thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️

[@unicorn-uy6lm]

DO YOU SELL IT

[@dallassegno]

nori?

[@lexsaligning]

come back 😢

[@miracacabilos3133]

i love your videos it's like when i'm watching your videos my anxiety and stress starts to fade away when i watch it..Do some more interesting videos🧚🏻‍♀️🖤

[@SoftlyStudio]

I'm so happy to hear that. I find it very hard to find time to film and edit videos while running the shop full-time. But I will try my best 🤎