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Inks (166)
Inkston supplies fine Li Ting Gui inksticks from Old Hu Kai Wen workshop and Jiang SiXu Tang 姜思序堂 professional colours. Please see our Buyers Guide and related articles for more info. Inks (166)
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“落纸惊风起，摇空邑露浓，舟奇与纪事，舍此复何从！” 耿伟《咏宣州笔》 "The paper put down to paint suddenly blows up in the wind, shaking in the thick air like a boat of writing, what a complex pleasure!" Ode to a Xuan brush - Geng Wei Special Offer - Make your own brush set: 15% off any order of 5 or more individual brushes. Brushes (70)
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Art Papers (123)
"轻似蝉翼白如雪，抖似细绸不闻声" "Light as onion skin white as snow, flutters like fine silk without a sound" - ode to the fineness of Xuan paper Xuan Paper, is one of the treasures of China, a Unesco recognised 2,000 year old tradition, made by hand in a 200 step process using sustainable local ingredients, especially a local tree bark. Most of the ancient… Art Papers (123)
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INKSTON Diamond Sutra Calligraphy Paper 500cm
Note: decorative paper might not be available immediately to ship. If we are not able to send the papers as soon as we receive the order, we normally send it out within 1 week and will contact you immediately. You can also send an email to us at any time for any query you may have. $16.50$9.90 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Materials: Xuan paper
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese PaintingINKSTON Diamond Sutra Calligraphy Paper 500cm
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Low Resin Blue Colour Cake 15g/ 0.54oz
How to use: use wet brush to apply colour directly on the colour cake. Feature: The chips include resin already. The colour is very fine and pure. Colour is profound and endurable. It is very easy to get colour. Storage: keep it in dry, clean shade. The longer the colour is preserved, the better the quality becomes. Special Note: industrial colour, easy…$9.35 (USD)
Brand: Jiang SiXu Tang 姜思序堂
Colour: Blue
Materials: industrial pigment, mineral pigment, Resin
Packaging: Ceramic Pot
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Chinese Painting, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting
Product Weight: 15
Shipping size: 5 × 2 × 2 cmLow Resin Blue Colour Cake 15g/ 0.54oz
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Lead White Colour Cake 15g/ 0.54oz
How to use: use wet brush to apply colour directly on the colour cake. Feature: The chips include resin already. The colour is very fine and pure. Colour is profound and endurable. It is very easy to get colour. Storage: keep it in dry, clean shade. The longer the colour is preserved, the better the quality becomes. Special Note: industrial colour, easy…$6.05 (USD)
Brand: Jiang SiXu Tang 姜思序堂
Colour: white
Materials: lead, mineral pigment
Packaging: Ceramic Pot
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Chinese Painting, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting
Product Weight: 15
Shipping size: 5 × 2 × 2 cmLead White Colour Cake 15g/ 0.54oz
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Cinnabar Red Colour 15g/ 0.54oz
How to use: use wet brush to apply colour directly on the colour cake. Feature: The chips include resin already. The colour is very fine and pure. Colour is profound and endurable. It is very easy to get colour. Storage: keep it in dry, clean shade. The longer the colour is preserved, the better the quality becomes. Special Note: industrial colour, easy…$16.39 (USD)
Brand: Jiang SiXu Tang 姜思序堂
Colour: Cinnabar Red 朱膘
Materials: Cinnabar, mineral pigment
Packaging: Ceramic Pot
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Chinese Painting, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting
Product Weight: 15
Shipping size: 5 × 2 × 2 cmCinnabar Red Colour 15g/ 0.54oz
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Inkston Initial Brush Set for Sumi E Beginners
This set is designed and made by Inkston Brush workshop specially for beginners of Chinese painting/ calligraphy. One set includes 4 brushes: Initial 1, Initial 2, Initial 3, and Initial 4. Each brush has different sizes and is made with different animal hair types. One set of such brush can meet almost all the needs of beginners for both calligraphy…$19.80 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Xu Shi Chun
Materials: Bamboo, Horse Hair, Weasel Hair, Wood, Wool
Recommend to: Beginners
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting, 花鸟画 Flower and Bird paintingInkston Initial Brush Set for Sumi E Beginners
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Inkston Gongbi Detail LangHao Wolf Brush Set
This is a set of very classic and versatile Gongbi painting brushes. These fine brushes are made with pure weasel hair. They are designed especially for drawing fine lines and small details. Price is for a set of 5 such brushes with different sizes. Inkston also supplies 0903Ws Weasel Hair Gongbi Brush. The 0903Ws brush is similar to #3 brush…$33.00 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Xu Shi Chun
Materials: Bamboo, Weasel Hair
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Chinese Painting, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting, 花鸟画 Flower and Bird paintingInkston Gongbi Detail LangHao Wolf Brush Set
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Red Star 3 Star 10-20% Sized Practice Xuan Paper 69 * 138 cm
Only available in whole pack of 100 sheets. Size: 69 * 138 cm Grade: 3 star, practicing Xuan paper, single layer Recommendation: for daily practice of calligraphy and Chinese painting. Special Features: produced by Red Star according to strict standards. The paper itself is 10 to 20% sized. Therefore, it is easier to control.$219.53 (USD)
Brand: Red Star 红星
Materials: 棉料 Mian Liao
Paper size: 138cm Plus size
Product Size: 138 × 69 cm
Shipping weight: 4000 gRed Star 3 Star 10-20% Sized Practice Xuan Paper 69 * 138 cm
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Ceramic Pestle and Mortar for Making Colours
Special Features: it is a special tool to make colours. The inside of the mortar and lower part of the pestle are un-glazed and have coarse surface so that it would be easy to make colours. $9.90 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Materials: White Kaolin Clay
Suitable for: grind natural colour chips
Net Weight: 270g
Size: Mortar Size: 9.5 * 5.5 cm; Pestle Size: 10 * 1.5 cm
Shipping weight: 300 gCeramic Pestle and Mortar for Making Colours
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Ancient Recipe Lu Xuan Paper (100 sheets)
This paper is specially processed by animal gelatine. Therefore, it feels like half-cooked xuan paper. It is very user friendly and suitable for all levels calligraphy and Chinese flower & bird painting. $11.78 – $171.67
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Materials: Xuan paper
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting
Paper size: 22 * 32 cm, 138cm Plus sizeAncient Recipe Lu Xuan Paper (100 sheets)
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Zhao Ji Slender Gold Thousand Characters 赵佶瘦金体千字文
Calligrapher: Zhao Ji 赵佶 （Emperor HuiZong 宋徽宗） Publishing House: Hu Bei Art Publishing House, 1st edition, 1st September, 2015 Page: 22 pages ISBN: 9787539479262, 7539479264$6.05 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting
Product Size: 30 × 20 × 0.5 cm
Product Weight: 81.6Zhao Ji Slender Gold Thousand Characters 赵佶瘦金体千字文
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Practice Blank Painting Mat
This is a very helpful tool for you to practice Chinese painting strokes. The mat is made with fine silk, natural wood, and fine special material. The special practice layer is mounted in a silk roll. How it works? Use clean water to paint with brush. Once the mat is dry, the painting you did will disappear and you can…$6.59 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Materials: Silk, Solid Black Wood
Packaging: Roll
Recommend to: Beginners, Medium Level
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting
Product Size: 38 × 85 cm
Product Weight: 467Practice Blank Painting Mat
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Fine Taiji (Tai Chi) Inkstone with Cover
Fine Taiji (Tai Chi) Inkstone with Cover$62.70 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Recommend to: Beginners, Medium Level
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting
Product Size: 13 × 13 × 3.5 cmFine Taiji (Tai Chi) Inkstone with Cover
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INKSTON Diamond Sutra Calligraphy Paper 500cm
Note: decorative paper might not be available immediately to ship. If we are not able to send the papers as soon as we receive the order, we normally send it out within 1 week and will contact you immediately. You can also send an email to us at any time for any query you may have. $16.50$9.90 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Materials: Xuan paper
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese PaintingINKSTON Diamond Sutra Calligraphy Paper 500cm
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郑板桥 Zheng BanQiao Bamboo Inksticks Set
This is a set of black inksticks specially made for painting in the style of Zheng BanQiao (郑板桥, also known as 鄭燮 Zheng Xie), famous for his paintings of bamboo and special calligraphy. There are four inksticks in each set. The inksticks are packed very well in a fine traditional Chinese silk-lined wooden box. The four inksticks are the same ink…$86.90$75.90 (USD)
Brand: 老胡開文墨莊 Old Hu Kai Wen Ink Workshop
Colour: Black
Materials: 全烟 Quan Soot
Packaging: Traditional Chinese Silk Lined Box
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Collectors, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, Collection
Product Size: 26.5 × 21.5 × 3.6 cm
Product Weight: 119g*4郑板桥 Zheng BanQiao Bamboo Inksticks Set
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Gongbi Painting Material Kit (20 items)
Plus these 18 items listed on this page, you will also get one classic INKSTON handmade Xuan Paper Sample Pack and a made-in-Japan brush roll or painting mat when checking out. Therefore, in total this kit contains 20 items. All the items are professional grade made with the finest materials by experienced craftsmen. It is a perfect kit for Chinese…$118.67$100.87
Brand: inkston
Shipping size: 261 × 72.5 × 81.2 cm
Shipping weight: 1185.5 gGongbi Painting Material Kit (20 items)
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Inkston WsWl 古法白云 GuFa BaiYun “Traditional White Cloud ” 兼毫 Jian Hao Combination Brush Set
Special Feature: 60 – 65% weasel hair, 35 – 40% wool. The inside part is weasel hair; the outside part is wool.$53.81$45.74
Brand: inkston
Maker: Xu Shi Chun
Materials: Bamboo, JianHao hair
Packaging: silk sleeve
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, 写意画 Freehand Painting, 楷书 KaiShu Regular Script calligraphy, 花鸟画 Flower and Bird painting, 草书 CaoShu "grass" Cursive Script calligraphy
Brush Hair Size: 4 * 0.9 cm, 3.6 * 0.8 cm, 3.3 * 0.7 cm
Product Size: 28 x 1,1 x 1,1 cm, 28 x 1 x 1 cm, 26,2 x 0,9 x 0,9 cm
Product Weight: 16
Shipping size: 96.5 × 8 × 7 cmInkston WsWl 古法白云 GuFa BaiYun “Traditional White Cloud ” 兼毫 Jian Hao Combination Brush Set
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inkston Xuan Paper sample pack
NOTE: this paper is currently under production! We accept pre-order now. If the order only contains this sample pack, the sample pack is free and you will only need to pay postage fee. The postage will be decided by your address. We will start sending out the sample packs in March of 2020. For more details, please feel free to…$0.00 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Shipping weight: 150 ginkston Xuan Paper sample pack
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Mounting Paper – Thin 144x76cm
This is thin mounting paper. The size is 144 * 76 cm per sheet while a standard Si Chi (Chinese measurements of Xuan paper size) Xuan paper size is 138 * 69 cm. It is a perfect choice to as the first mounting layer, in between the painting and thicker paper or card, known in chinese as the "painting heart"…$1.65 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Materials: Cotton, Qing Tan, Rice Straw
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Mounting
Product Size: 144 × 76 cmMounting Paper – Thin 144x76cm
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Inkston 0903Ws 花枝俏 “Flower Brush” Extra Fine Detail LangHao Wolf brush
Shaft: bamboo Hair: 100% weasel Suitable for: Chinese Gongbihua Painting (to draw narrow lines), or very small calligraphy. Recommend to: students, semi-professional, professional It is handmade with pure weasel hair. The size is very suitable for drawing narrow lines, and Gong Bi paintings. It is made with a very expereinced brush workshop in China. ASIN: B01N7EVPK6 ASIN: B071KSQDM6 $7.17 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Xu Shi Chun
Materials: Bamboo, Weasel Hair
Packaging: silk sleeve
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: 1 – 1.5 cm diameter calligraphy, 工笔画 Gongbi Painting, 花鸟画 Flower and Bird painting
Brush Hair Size: 0.35 * 1.9 cm
Product Size: 24.5 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm
Product Weight: 5.2
Shipping size: 27.5 × 5 × 0.7 cmInkston 0903Ws 花枝俏 “Flower Brush” Extra Fine Detail LangHao Wolf brush
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Japanese Brush Roll
materials: cotton strings, bamboo colour: red made in Japan It only suitable for brushes less than 29 cm length. For brushes over 29 cm, please refer to the 36cm length brush roll.$4.29 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Materials: Bamboo, Cotton
Product Size: 29 × 29 × 0.5 cm
Product Weight: 65
Shipping size: 29 × 10 × 5 cmJapanese Brush Roll
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