A type of light weight decorative base paper has been made from bleached sulfate softwood pulp and cotten pulp under laboratory conditions. Tests of optimization were made on melamine formaldehyde resin, WS-01, WS-02, and WS-03 wet strength additives, anionic polyaerylamide, cationic poly-acrylamide and A-RA1 retention additives, A-DS1 dry strength additive and different types of titanium dioxide. It was found that a proper combination of WS-01 and A-DS1 would make the base paper meet the quality requirements in dry and wet strength, absorbability and ash content. Principal manufacturing factors and optimum technological conditions have also been determined.