Easyou Sumi Paper Xuan Paper Shuan Rice Paper for Students Beginning Calligraphy Practice Natural Half Ripe 24.5 * 33.5cm 100Sheets 2011

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.

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.

Only part that truly ruined it for me, it came folded and this all of the paper is now not flat. I really wish the shipping packaging was better done to ensure the papers came in not creased

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.

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.

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.

It seems to work pretty well. You can see lines in the paper but since I am a beginner maybe they are supposed to be there? With way works well enough for class.

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.

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.