How To Make Chinese Style Paper Fuse

In this tutorial, I show how to make chinese style paper fuse. This type of fuse is used in most commercial firecrackers. It is fairly simple to make once you get the hang of rolling it up, in fact the hardest part is probably getting the Japanese tissue paper. This type of tissue has long fibers and good strength even when wet, making it ideal for fusemaking. A detail that I didn t mention in the video is that when you slice the tissue paper into strips, it must be done in the direction of the grain of th