Traditional occidental painting techniques like watercolor or oil build an image from many layered brush strokes. You don't usually notice the individual strokes unless you stand very close. But in ...

Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, who is an inheritor of the ...

HANGZHOU - In a town 60 kilometers from the city of Hangzhou, a group of Chinese ink brush manufacturers is struggling to survive at a time when people are forgetting how to write by hand. Ma Wanbiao, ...