1 May 2017
Talking Seals
Sgraffito
One kind of decoration often seen on the sides of Chinese seals is a scratched design called sgraffito.
15 March 2017
Collecting Famous Seals
Occasionally a seal will be seen with a signature carved into the side of the stone by a famous Chinese seal artist.
15 January 2017
1 January 2017
15 December 2016
AliExpress
I took a quick look today at the China-based website AliExpress to find seal tools or stones.
1 December 2016
Japanese Seal Video
Today I accidentally came across an old video on YouTube about Japanese seals.
16 October 2016
The Japanese Seal Dilemma
Do these Japanese seals look similar? Can you tell by looking whether they are made by the same artist or by several?
1 October 2016
Shallow Relief
Seal stones will sometimes come decorated on their sides with shallow relief carving.
15 September 2016
Where Does It Start?
Chinese is traditionally written from top to bottom in columns that are read from right to left, in other words beginning in the top right corner and continuing to the bottom left corner.
15 January 2016
Corner Seals
Bottom corner seals (In Chinese yajiaozhang 押角章) are just as the name implies—seals placed to mark the corners of the finished artwork.
1 October 2015
1 September 2015