{"id":3684,"date":"2020-04-26T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T01:55:21","slug":"ita-boshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/process\/ita-boshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Process: Ita-boshi (Wooden Board Drying)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p> <strong>In the past, artisans put Washi on wooden board for drying. This method was very much depending on weathers, and heavy tough work.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Roughly since a hundred years ago, drying on the warmed metal panel has permeated in Japan, then it became quite popular nowadays.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Though using the metal panel is convenient, drying on wooden board has meaningful effectiveness. That is less damage to the fibre. Drying on wooden board is harmonizing with the same speed of shrinkage with papers and excess water is absorbed. As a result, the fibre doesn\u2019t break off, become strong and soft paper.<\/strong><br \/><strong>There are three styles of drying. First is &#8220;Sun Drying&#8221;, under the sunshine. This is quite depending on weather, they can not dry the paper in cloudy, rainy and snowy day. This method gives also whiteness to the paper. Second is &#8220;Chamber Drying&#8221;, which is popular in Echizen. They use the special room in the workshop, warmed and dried room. Third is &#8220;Indoor Drying&#8221;, just drying the paper as it is in the room.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Gingko is the most popular material, because the surface is very smooth. Marronnier is similar, but a bit rare. Pine is also used, it makes wood pattern on the paper. Some of workshops are using very old board, more than 100 years old, inherited from the previous generations.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Some artisans dry the papers on metal panel at the natural temparature, under sunshine or indoor. It gives special smooth surface on the paper.<\/strong><br \/><strong>These methods are very rare at present. But we wish this method will be conveyed for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<h2>Related Topics<\/h2>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, artisans put Washi on wooden board for drying. This method was very much depending on weathers, and heavy tough work.Roughly since a hundred years ago, drying on the warmed metal panel has permeated in Japan, then it became quite popular nowadays.Though using the metal panel is convenient, drying on wooden board has meaningful effectiveness. That is less damage to the fibre. Drying on wooden board is harmonizing with the same speed of shrinkage with papers and excess water is absorbed. As a result, the fibre doesn\u2019t break off, become strong and soft paper.There are three styles of drying. First is &#8220;Sun Drying&#8221;, under the sunshine. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[57],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}