The studio
Han Brick Atelier is not a factory and does not pretend to be one. What we sell is made in small numbers by people using a method that predates printing by centuries.
How we work
We do not take money for work that has not been made. Every piece in the collection has already been pressed, dried, inspected, numbered and photographed before it appears on this site.
That means the catalogue is short and changes slowly. It also means the photograph you are looking at is of a physical object sitting in the studio waiting for an owner — not a rendering of something we might make later.
Why we do it this way
A rubbing is a record of contact — paper pressed against a surface carved by someone who died two thousand years ago. You cannot digitise that. You can only do it by hand, slowly, and accept that no two sheets come out the same.
We keep the variation rather than correcting it, because the variation is the proof.
See the six stepsWork with the studio
Interior designers, hotels and private collectors sometimes need a motif that is not in the current release. We take on a small number of commissions each year.