Shoji hawaii has created a lovely collection of traditional and custom shoji screens doors and room dividers.
Shoji sliding door construction.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
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.
Here s how the door was built.
A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.
Our shoji screens can be made to slide fold be used as closet doors wardrobe doors pocket doors or as a regular door.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
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.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Wood samples below shown next to ebony door pulls for color comparison.
Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
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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.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
Freshly milled cherry will darken to the color shown in a few months.
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.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
To make 2 sliding doors with overlap of one edge find the centerline of your opening and draw a line.
In many cases it consists of 4 doors that slide in a bottom rail at the floor and a top rail.
I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.