Treyball

 

 

Three shoji screens to span 108" wide opening. Built in Maple with a Sapele 'moon' and Sapele bottom door panels. Each shoji is 37-3/8" x 88-5/8". The pictures don't do these justice - so pretty in person. We worked with our client on the kumiko pattern. 

Frances did a wonderful job on the layout, note how the lower kumiko lead the eye to a "horizon" where the  moon quietly sets.

We are much better at making shoji than taking photo's-

those Sapele panels have a ribbon grain and absolutely glow with reflective beauty.

Praise the tree, we had nothing to do with that!

 

 

The moon shows a bit darker than actual in the photo.

 

This is a better color example. Pencil for scale. We try to keep the joints tight!

 

 

All our free floating kumiko ends are beveled to finish them off cleanly.

 

 

Elvis stepped in for scale. He is 6 ft tall.

 

 

Shoji pocket door with the same kumiko pattern scaled down for this 28" x 80" door.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siler

 

 

Beech shoji screens with 1 mm White Warlon and Ebony inlaid door pulls.

Each shoji is 35-3/4" x 86-3/4" x 1-3/8".

 

 

Elvis stepped in for size - he is 6 feet tall.

 

 

The 1 mm White Warlon with dark and light backgrounds.

 

 

Large inlaid Ebony door pulls.

 

 

J Martin Builders

 

 

Shoji screens built in Beech for a double pocket using 1 mm white Warlon, Japanese Cherry inlaid door pulls and satin nickel inlaid edge pulls.. not shown.

 

 

Elvis stepped in for size - he is 6 feet tall.

 

Osborne

 

 

Beautiful little shoji screens built in Beech with 1 mm bamboo Warlon and our K20 pattern.

These are pocket shoji, so the outer stiles are 1/2" wider to go into the pocket and make sure no gap shows. The darker backdrop, pictured below, really pops the bamboo pattern.

(The change in shoji wood color is due to the camera compensating

for a different background tone.)

 

 

 

 

The horizontal kumiko that end on a vertical kumiko are angle cut

so the join is not visible from the side.

 

 

 

Wood clamps and wedges hold the join

together while the glue dries.

 

 

This is the kumiko/insert sandwich - Spacers are cut from cardboard  to align the upper and lower kumiko grids during assembly or the vertical kumiko will not align properly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course Elvis had to step in for scale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ramakrishnan

 

 

Sapele shoji screens with our K16 (a Fibonacci based kumiko pattern), 1 mm Warlon laminated paper and inlaid Ebony door pulls. Span is 114".

Shoji size is 39-1/4" x 76-1/2" x 1-3/8"

 

 

 

Elvis stepped in for scale. He is 6' tall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Square Root Construction

 

 

Sapele Shoji screens to span 110-5/8" wide pocket with Kumiko pattern #2, 1 mm Warlon laminated paper, inlaid Ebony door pulls and a satin Nickel edge pull not pictured.

 

 

Elvis stepped in for scale. He is 6' tall.

 

 

Close up of the super figure in the Sapele kumiko.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vandenberg

 

 

Three of the four shoji to span an opening 138" wide. We didn't have the room 

to lay them all out. Built in Maple with 1 mm Kinwashi Warlon, our client's 

kumiko pattern and inlaid Ebony door pulls.

 

 

Elvis stepped in for size - he is 6' tall.

 

 

Two shoji for a doorway in the same room.

Each shoji is 42-3/8" x 84-1/8" x 1-3/8".