(taken from NUNO list) In this lightweight fabric, strips of Minowashi handmade paper are woven into a sheer polyester organdy base. Minowashi--paper from the Mino region near Gifu in the mountains of central Honshu--is one of the strongest traditional papers in Japan and as such has long been used for shoji paper sliding doors. Finely slit yarns of this paper are used for wefts, then a metal foil brocade specialist weaver does the finishing, ensuring that the paper strips lie uniformly flat and give a beautiful soft lustre to the final fabric. Both the paper and organdy are white, giving an abstract white on white effect.