Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

EDMONTON—Sitting in his sister’s north-side Edmonton home, Maher Housn dips his bamboo calligraphy pen into a pot of ink he mixed from pigment, silk and Arabic gum before touching it to a sheet of ...