Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
Shoji sliding door construction.
To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Building the shoji doors here follows a detailed description of the process i used to make a set of shoji doors.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
Our shoji screens can be made to slide fold be used as closet doors wardrobe doors pocket doors or as a regular door.
Shoji hawaii has created a lovely collection of traditional and custom shoji screens doors and room dividers.
While many of the shoji doors in this project had different over all dimensions the joinery dimensions were all similar the main differences being piece total length and spacing of the kumiko mortises in the rails and stiles.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
Shōji are very lightweight so they are easily slid aside or taken off their tracks and stored in a closet opening the room to other rooms or the outside.
Cut two sheets of purebond pre finished plywood to size with an extra in each direction.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.
I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.
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Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
See our installations for examples.
Freshly milled cherry will darken to the color shown in a few months.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.
Here s how the door was built.
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Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.