Mercurius Japanese Silk Paper Booklet – 240 Sheets | 16cm & 24cm

Mercurius Japanese silk paper is a lightweight translucent tissue paper ideal for lantern making, window transparencies and colourful tissue paper crafts. These delicate sheets allow light to shine through beautifully, creating glowing stained-glass style effects when layered.

Japanese silk paper is widely used in Waldorf craft projects, especially for making window transparencies and lantern decorations where colour and light are central to the design. The soft tissue paper tears easily, making it perfect for collage techniques often used in Waldorf art activities.

Compared with kite paper, Japanese silk paper is thinner and softer, which makes it easier to tear, cut and layer. When pieces overlap, the translucent colours blend together naturally, producing luminous colour transitions that glow when backlit.

Perfect Paper for Lanterns, Transparencies and Tissue Paper Crafts

Japanese silk paper is commonly used to create lanterns, decorative window scenes and layered transparency artwork. Small torn or cut pieces can be glued onto tracing paper, card shapes, lantern frames or glass jars to build colourful designs.

These translucent sheets are especially popular for:

• Waldorf window transparencies
• Lantern making and light decorations
• Stained-glass style window crafts
• Tissue paper collage projects
• Seasonal decorations and paper flowers

The colours glow beautifully when sunlight or candlelight passes through the finished piece.

A Large Selection of Colours for Creative Crafting

This booklet contains 240 sheets of Japanese silk paper in 20 colours, offering a wide palette for layered tissue paper crafts and transparency artwork:

000 peach, 004 salmon pink, 006 dark pink, 020 light turquoise,  021 sky blue, 034 light green, 038 green, 046 brown, 047 dark brown, 056 ultramarine, 065 cyclamen, 068 yellow, 071 golden yellow, 072 baby yellow, 082 orange, 090 red, 091 carmine, 140 white, 145 black, 200 dark green

Whether you are making lanterns, seasonal decorations or creative tissue paper crafts, this Mercurius Japanese silk paper booklet provides a versatile supply of translucent craft paper.

At Babipur we stock a carefully selected range of art materials used in Waldorf-inspired crafts, making it easy to combine this Japanese silk paper with lantern kits, craft supplies and seasonal decorations.

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