1. The first one is that when creating or practicing calligraphy and painting, the felt is put under the practice paper and the rice paper is supported with fluff, which can absorb excess ink and prevent the pigment and ink from directly passing through the rice paper or the practice paper and polluting the desktop. Felt has the advantages of being reusable, practical, soft and cheap.
Felt has a long life, even some old painters will use it for decades, and there is no need to pad tools that need to be changed frequently, such as newspapers.
2. The second usage is to use felt as an essential auxiliary material for Four Treasures of the Study. Used to set off rice paper, so that calligraphy and painting lovers can write freely. When practicing calligraphy, if you want to write big works, you need to buy a big thick felt; If you are writing fine print, you can also choose a wool felt with thin surface fluff, which is thinner, softer and flatter.
Using wool felt under paper can quickly absorb excess ink.
There are all kinds of calligraphy and painting carpets on the market. Due to the different materials and techniques, a variety of painting and calligraphy carpets have been produced. Generally, the materials for making painting and calligraphy felt are mainly wool or chemical fiber.
Felt type:
1. Different materials: some painting and calligraphy felt materials are pure wool. This pure wool painting and calligraphy felt is divided into domestic wool of first-class painting and calligraphy felt and imported wool of super-class painting and calligraphy felt. Some felts are chemical fiber, called chemical fiber painting and calligraphy felt. Other felt materials are a mixture of wool and chemical fiber, which is called blended painting and calligraphy felt.
2, the production process is different: some painting and calligraphy carpets are wrapped in relatively dense cloth, and generally high-grade carpets are treated like this. There are only lines to seal the edges and only to sew them. Some of them have not been processed, that is, they are in a straight cutting state.