For hone-shibari, wastepaper that has strength was used, for intermediate processes Minato-gami (Minato paper, a paper made of used paper in Minato-mura village, Izumi Province with thin black or gray color) or chachiri-shi (a paper made from the wastes of the black bark of paper mulberry trees) was used, and for the process of kiyo-bari, the highly sticky kizuki such as Mino-gami, Hosokawa-gami and Sesshu-hanshi (standard-size Japanese writing paper made in Iwami Province) were used.
骨縛りは引きの強い反故紙を用い、中期工程には湊紙（和泉の湊村で漉かれた漉き返しの紙で、薄墨または鼠色の紙）や茶塵（ちゃちり）紙（楮の黒皮のくずから漉いた紙や、故紙を再生したもので単に塵紙ともいう）を用い、清貼の工程には粘りの強い生漉きの美濃紙・細川紙・石州半紙などが用いられた。