Making Shoji Screens Sliding Doors

Today shoji screens are often used as sliding doors between rooms or to the outside as well as interior window coverings closet doors and freestanding screens.
Making shoji screens sliding doors. The construction of shoji japanese sliding doors requires intricate skills and attention to detail. Our custom shoji screens. Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam. We have been crafting shoji products in our los angeles workshop for over 40 years.
Usually crafted by placing rice paper over a wooden framework shoji screens allow light to filter through a room while still maintaining some level of privacy. Place the end of the paper roll at the top of the kumiko and roll it down inside the frame. Custom made screens are beautiful but the craftsmanship that goes into making them does not come cheaply. Achieve that asian influence you seek and get both safety and durability with our glass shoji screens.
Shoji style sliding closet doors from scratch. Our sliding doors windows and other shoji products have been installed in homes businesses and other venues throuhout the los angeles basin and orange county throughout southern california and the west coast and across the entire united states. At the sliding door company we ve taken shoji screens to the next level. Paint rice glue on one side of the kumiko structure.
Instead of thin easily damaged paper shoji screens our asian style glass dividers doors and closets add a clean modern and durable asian touch to any room. Cut shoji paper to fit perfectly inside the frame and roll it up. I wanted a higher end look but not a higher end price tag. After pricing real shoji doors at near 1000 i decided i could build something similar make it more durable and m.
My house had the generic metal bi fold closet doors which look very cheap. To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.