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Inks (164)
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 (164)
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Brushes (69)
“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 (69)
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Art Papers (122)
"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 (122)
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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. $9.90 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Inkston
Materials: Xuan paper
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Calligraphy, Chinese Painting
Product Size: 35 × 500 cm
Product Weight: ,
Shipping size: 50 × 10 × 10 cmINKSTON 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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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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Red Star 京抓 Pro Jing Zhua Yang Hao Wool Brush Set
Set of 5 large premium quality brushes from Red Star. These brushes are made with aged goat hair which has lost fat, this help the brush to hold more water. Therefore, aged goat hair can hold a lot of ink.$168.54$160.11
Brand: Red Star 红星
Materials: Solid Black Wood, Wool
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Large Cursive Calligraphy, Large Leaves/Trees, 山水画 ShanShui Landscape Painting
Brush Hair Size: 2 * 8 cm, 2.2 * 8.5 cm, 2.8 * 9.5 cm, 3 * 10 cm, 3.5 * 11 cm
Shipping size: 145 × 25 × 25 cm
Shipping weight: 1100 gRed Star 京抓 Pro Jing Zhua Yang Hao Wool Brush Set
-5%$168.54$160.11 Add to cart
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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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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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Personalized Art Seal — Jin Shen 金声
This is the chance for you get a personalized seal designed and hand-carved by artist Jin Shen 金声 who is a national award winner for seal carving & design. Each seal is signed by the artist and beautifully packaged. When you order this product you can submit your design ideas (as text or pictures) and the artist will produce a design…$88.00 (USD)
Brand: inkston
Maker: Jin Shen 金声
Materials: Natural Stone
Packaging: Traditional Chinese Silk Lined Box
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Shipping weight: 250 gPersonalized Art Seal — Jin Shen 金声
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Round Inkstone with Cover
Round shape inkstone made with natural stone with a specially made stone cover, available in a range of sizes: 7" - 7 inch diameter (17.5 * 17.5 * 3.5 cm) , 1510g 6" - 6 inch diameter (15.2 * 15.2 * 2.8 cm), 1040g 5" - 5 inch diameter (12 * 12 * 2.5 cm), 509g 4" - 4 inch diameter (10 * 10…$18.37 – $21.56
Brand: inkstonRound Inkstone with Cover
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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
Sale!$86.90$75.90 (USD) Add -
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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Red Star 京抓 Pro Jing Zhua Yang Hao Wool Brush Set
Set of 5 large premium quality brushes from Red Star. These brushes are made with aged goat hair which has lost fat, this help the brush to hold more water. Therefore, aged goat hair can hold a lot of ink.$168.54$160.11
Brand: Red Star 红星
Materials: Solid Black Wood, Wool
Recommend to: Advanced Level, Beginners, Medium Level, Professionals
Suitable for: Large Cursive Calligraphy, Large Leaves/Trees, 山水画 ShanShui Landscape Painting
Brush Hair Size: 2 * 8 cm, 2.2 * 8.5 cm, 2.8 * 9.5 cm, 3 * 10 cm, 3.5 * 11 cm
Shipping size: 145 × 25 × 25 cm
Shipping weight: 1100 gRed Star 京抓 Pro Jing Zhua Yang Hao Wool Brush Set
-5%$168.54$160.11 Add to cart
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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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Painting Mat (black colour)
material: wool, polyester colour: the new updated mat is black colour main functions: protect table; absorb extra ink/ water It is available in two sizes: L - 100 * 65 * 0.3 cm, 140g M - 60 * 40 * 0.2 cm, 80g Features: inkston has spent a couple of months on testing different materials. In the end, we found…$5.28 – $7.48
Brand: inkston
Size: L, MPainting Mat (black colour)
$5.28 – $7.48 Choose