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Burmese Shan Lacquer Brown — Cover

About Burmese Shan Lacquer Brown

Burmese yun lacquerware is built on a woven-bamboo core, primed with ash, then coated in thitsi sap that oxidizes to a deep glossy umber-brown undercoat. Into this near-black, warm-toned ground the decoration is incised — never painted on a pale panel.

The signature accents are cinnabar-vermilion red and incised gold (shwe). This system distills that craft into a digital language: a dark lacquer ground, layered glossy sheen, fine yun linework, and red-and-gold banding used sparingly as ornament.

Learn more about the Burmese Shan Lacquer Brown style

Origin
Bagan and the Shan States, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia
Era
1900–1950 (documented Bagan / Shan yun lacquer tradition)
Key figures
Burmese yun lacquer masters · Shan bamboo-core weavers · yun incising artisans
Movements
Burmese yun lacquerware · hsun-shwe red-and-gold incising · thitsi lacquer craft

Burmese Shan Lacquer Brown design spec

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Typography

MarcellusHeadings
SpectralBody
PadaukMono
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