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.
- 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
Colors
Typography
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