Meiyutang Xuan Paper(Shuan/Rice Paper) For Calligraphy Painting Practice 50sheets Half Ripe 601

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.

The paper arrived folded over. Since the fold was a roll rather than a crease, I ironed them flat. I like the paper - even though it's remarkably thin it takes the ink well and it's easy to work with. Yes, I recommend it. Don't be dissuaded by the fold-over, just iron out the stack of pages - no steam and do it quickly.

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.

The product is okay. Very disappointed at how it arrived. Wrinkly, it had creases. It's a delicate paper and it is just wrapped in plastic no hard backing or anything to protect it.I would not buy this from Amazon, it's too delicate, it gets treated like a ream of paper just thrown in a box with other items. Just no a wast of money and very frustrating.

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.

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

I only did a quick look, and the item is as described, with good quality packaging. The paper arrived flat, so there will be no crinks or folds when I try brush painting on them. Shipped very quickly. Very happy with my purchase.