Xuan Paper Care, Storage and Mounting

How to look after your Xuan paper and options for mounting your finished painting or calligraphy.

Mounted and Decorative Xuan Papers

A range of Xuan papers mounted on card, gold, red white and other colours and designs, cut into square, circle or other traditional shapes and…

Xuan Paper Buyer Guide

This guide >40 different grades of Xuan papers in our shop. Perfect Xuan has the highest concentration of quality tree bark, which is the most…

Chinese Su Ink landscape painting tips with Wang Zirang

Wang Zirang a follower of Huang Binhong and leading Xin'An artist tells us about Chinese Su ink painting.

China’s Four Treasures of the Study

  The "Four Treasures of the Study" 文房四宝 wén fáng sì bǎo, the brush 笔 bǐ, ink 墨 mò  ink stone yàn, and the paper…

Xuan Paper Making – a UNESCO intangible heritage

Xuan paper making matured over 1,000 years ago in the Tang dynasty, following original invention of paper by Cai Lun (7-121) and is regarded as one…

Chinese Xuan 1,000 year old Truth paper

What is Xuan paper? In China there is a special paper, famous as one of China's Four Treasures of the Study, that has proved to…