The Ishikawa Paper Goods workshop is located in Mino city, the Mino Washi Japanese paper village. Throughout our history, we have always kept one thing in mind.
It is the desire to "Present Heart of Japan" – We are committed to hand-making Mino Washi Japanese paper goods.
Because our products are handmade, their good texture will bring you comfort and happiness.
Our company's original products are made by the skilled hands of craftspeople, so they take a lot of time and effort, unlike mass-produced industrial products.
This is the proof that they are handmade.
You will get a sense of our ideas and feelings when you look at and touch our products.
Mino Washi Japanese paper goods are your cute companions in your everyday life. Ishikawa Paper Goods is proud to bring them to you.
The new products that we produce every year are planned by the entire staff. Everyone in our company is skillful and experienced with paper goods. We produce new products to bring a smile to your face and happiness to your heart when you touch them.
We have special Japanese paper and cloth technologies which we cultivated throughout our long history since 1902. The beauty and warmth of our handmade products are achieved through our skilled processing technologies.
We are flexible, offering around 1,300 items in small lots and by your desired delivery date. We are happy to arrange planning, development, and production of original products for you.
・Ishikawa Mino Washi Paper Goods Workshop
・Honminoshi Japanese paper
・MINO-WASHI Museum
・Tourist Guide to Mino city
We have a special production cycle to develop new products every year. This special production cycle, which we have cultivated throughout our long history, involves the entire staff who skilled and experienced with paper goods.
We hold special production meetings with the whole staff as soon as the sales periods of seasonal products end.
The whole staff comes up with ideas for improvement and shares them at the special production meetings to explore what products will be needed in the future and propose new products and services.
We devise concrete ideas for new products of the following season. We decide who will be in charge and start trial production of the new products.
The whole staff shares their opinions to make improvements to the new product in the trial production meetings.
We commercialize the new product to determine costs and register them as Mino Washi Brand with the Mino Washi Brand Cooperative Society.
The production department holds handmade production meetings with the craftsmen to set up the production system.
We start producing the new catalog and promote the new products to our customers.