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