INKSTON Extra Thin Gongbi Plus, Sized Xuan Paper * Cicada Wing

£35.65 – £186.25

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Compared with standard Gongbi Sized Xuan Paper, this paper is much thinner. It is also referred to as ‘wing of cicada’ （蝉翼）because it is thin and translucent when get wet.

Sized papers with added Mica to create the Shimmer effect, made with alpine rushes, deliberately less absorbent than unsized raw Xuan tree bark paper to facilitate different styles of painting such as GongBi.

These papers are 熟宣 Shu Xuan sized or cooked Xuan paper made with Eulaliopsis binata called in Chinese 龙须草 “Dragon beard grass”  also known as Chinese alpine rush. They are deliberately not as absorbent as the unsized raw Xuan tree bark paper to facilitate different styles of painting.

  • Size: 60 * 120 cm.
  • Colour: White
  • Materials: 龙须草 “Dragon beard grass” latin name Eulaliopsis binata, known in English as Chinese alpine rush, spring water.
  • Suitable for Gongbi paintings.
  • Finish: the paper is sized and the absorption rate is low. It is designed for detailed Chinese ink paintings.
  • Handmade with traditional recipe.

This is fine thin paper, in large *approximately 120x60cm size (trimmed a little smaller than the 135×70 Plus size).

Available in pack sizes:

  • 10 sheets 60 * 120 cm
  • 20 sheets 60 * 120 cm
  • 50 sheets 60 * 120 cm
  • 100 sheets 60 * 120 cm
Paper packs

25 Sheet Roll of half-width sheets – standard parcel shipping
25 Sheet Roll of large size – 1kg approx. shipping weight
50 Sheet "half-pack" 2kg approx. shipping weight
100 Sheet pack 4kg approx shipping weight

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Materials

龙须草 Lóng xū cǎo “Dragon beard grass” latin name Eulaliopsis binata, known in English as Chinese alpine rush

used in sizing to give a shimmer effect to paper

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Product Weight
Shipping size 78 × 7 × 7 cm
Shipping weight 500 g
SKU ink-cygbp00-24579
asinusa B01N6L0E47
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This pack of paper is handmade at the ancient Xuan Paper workshop featured in Xuan paper making – a Unesco intangible heritage.
For more information about Xuan paper types and usage see Chinese Xuan 1,000 year old Truth paper.

 

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  • This was a very nice suprise! The paper looks very good. So nice i wonder do i dare to use it. I like nice paper but it always makes me wonder what if what i drow on it doesnot look good than i have ruined this wonderfull paper…..
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  • i received this sample pack with my order, i didn’t think it will have so many papers and it was a very pleasant surprise.
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  • Your sample packet was very nice with a huge selection of papers. I wish the paper size was a little bit larger to allow more testing of specific brushwork, but I really appreciate that the sample wasn’t small! Your sample packaging is very classy and looks very professional, and the inclusion of the comparison table is great!

  • With my order I received a sample pack. It taken some time till I scathed and tried all of them. Generally it was a very instructive, and the difference between a machine made Xuan papers (I knew these before) and these papers are like chalk and cheese! The papers attributes was a important discovery for me, and there is a distinctive difference between painting and writing papers. Aside from obvious attributes, like softness, thickness, colour.
    These attributes are:
    Thirst, how much a paper keeps the brush stroke and keep the ink contain, preserving gestures from your brush.
    Flow, how much you can move the ink and water on the paper, how long you can alter it before it becomes permanent.
    (All Xuan papers are super absorbent, but there are differences.)
    Painting papers have more flow, writing papers have more thirst, but I found interesting mixtures in both type.
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