MeiyutangXuan Paper(Shuan/Rice Paper) for Calligraphy Painting Practice 50Sheets Naturally Half Ripe 201

I bought this paper because of my teacher's recommendation, so I hurried in, ordered it, and got it in a day. The paper is a little off white, giving you the ancient feel, pretty thick comparing to other calligraphy paper, good quality. It's a little bit bigger than the size of a calligraphy book or sketch book, perfect size for practicing calligraphy or small sumi painting. The paper is half ripe and half raw, so good for using ink (not ink stick though unless you are doing sumi or xie yi painting, for its absorbent effect). The paper remains very smooth after the ink gets dry (some paper got wrinkles after ink dried ) and make my calligraphy look better than it is (I really like that). I would like to try a small sumi painting in a couple of days, I am sure it will turn out pretty good too. Good quality, highly recommended.

It is extremely thin paper! I knew that going in but it's really frail and can be easily bent or damaged, so it's best to leave the sheets in the wrapper someplace flat. In this style, you want to make one brush stroke ideally or very lightly. It cannot hold western ink heavily, so an ink stone is recommended.I really love the texture of the paper, it's absolutely beautiful.

Nice paper for the price.

Didn’t cost much but it arrived bent in half so all the paper is creased. Super thin rice paper- did nicely for printmaking if you’re careful with it

This paper thin like the tracing paper. I purchased this brand before and is 3 times thicker than this one. However, it surprised me after I use it for practice my calligraphy, I found out the results on the paper not bad at all.

Like the paper

Received paper yesterday and did some practice with it today. Love the feel of the paper, with proper amount of ink in MaoBi, ink does not over bleed or pool on the paper. The paper is smooth enough to give my MaoBi a good life out it, and at the same time, it has enough resistance for proper stroke during practice. I am just starting to re-acquaint myself with Chinese calligraphy, I think this is a great type of xuan paper for practices.

I used this to practice Chinese calligraphy and found out the paper has good quality and holds the ink pretty well.By the way, your ink can not be too watery, as any Xuan paper will not be able to hold watery ink.

I love this paper. I bought it for lino/block printing, and it just looks amazing. It has a texture on one side which I think looks really nice with the prints. Very rustic! I took one picture with light on it,and one with light behind it so you can see the texture and amount of transparency.