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Burmese Yun Lacquerware — Cover

About Burmese Yun Lacquerware

Burmese yun lacquerware from Bagan is an incising tradition: bamboo-cored vessels engraved by the kanyit yun technique, with cinnabar red, orpiment yellow and viridian green rubbed into fine lines cut through a mirror-black thitsi-lacquer ground. The surface is always dark and glossy, never cream — jewel-toned fields outlined and separated by black.

This design system translates that fine-line, banded-register craft into screen: a glossy black lacquer page, dense incised line-work, concentric figural and floral bands, and saturated mineral fills that glow against the dark.

Learn more about the Burmese Yun Lacquerware style

Origin
Southeast Asia — Bagan, Myanmar/Burma
Era
pre-1900 (Bagan lacquer tradition; name yun from Yunnan)
Key figures
Bagan kanyit yun lacquer workshops · thitsi-lacquer master craftsmen
Movements
Burmese yun-de incised lacquerware · thitsi-lacquer craft · kanyit yun incising

Burmese Yun Lacquerware design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

MarcellusHeadings
Cormorant GaramondBody
PadaukMono
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