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Shoji sliding door construction.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.
In many cases it consists of 4 doors that slide in a bottom rail at the floor and a top rail.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
Cut two sheets of purebond pre finished plywood to size with an extra in each direction.
To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
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.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Here s how the door was built.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.
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Our shoji screens can be made to slide fold be used as closet doors wardrobe doors pocket doors or as a regular door.
Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
We decided to use the purebond for our shoji door to the bathroom too faster than using wood framing pieces and going with a hardware free sliding door would mean more durability overall.
All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
Freshly milled cherry will darken to the color shown in a few months.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.
Wood samples below shown next to ebony door pulls for color comparison.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
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.
Building the shoji doors here follows a detailed description of the process i used to make a set of shoji doors.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
