Style combination · Pairs well

Đông Hồ × Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics

Another East Asian folk picture on handmade paper in earth colours; compare the woodblock's carved line with the stencil's cut field.

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Mix them and make something Đông Hồ Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Đông Hồ, their arrangement from Đông Hồ, the finish from Đông Hồ. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics

Type from Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics: Hand-lettering
Ornamented display
Colour from Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics: Earth & mineral
Flat fields
Form from Đông Hồ: Stylised figuration
Folk & sacred symbols
Composition from Đông Hồ: Single focal point
Isolated object
Surface from Đông Hồ: Paper & letterpress bite
Carved line

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

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Hello

Shippori Mincho, standing in for Hand-cut stencil kana and kanji, dyed together with the picture, for calendar month names, book titles and inscriptions

Text · Đông Hồ

Vietnam's two classic folk-print schools, bought for Tết. Đông Hồ families press each colour from its own carved block onto giấy điệp, dó paper brushed with ground scallop shell whose streaked, faintly sparkling surface serves as the white, and print the black line last. Plump animals and children, folk tales and satire such as the Rats' Wedding carry a short Hán or Nôm caption. In Hanoi's Hàng Trống only the outline was printed and the colour was brushed on in graded vờn washes, mostly for worship images. Kim Hoàng and Làng Sình prints fall outside this entry.

Archivo; Đông Hồ used Chữ Hán captions carved into the line block beside the image and Chữ Nôm inscriptions on older prints

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics, with a counter-accent from Đông Hồ. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics

#efe6d2 ground · 36%
#2b2622 ink · 14%
#d9a635 accent · 18%
#b5432a accent · 14%
#1f3a5f accent · 10%
#6b7a3a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #efe6d2;
  --ink: #2b2622;
  --accent-1: #d9a635;
  --accent-2: #b5432a;
  --accent-3: #1f3a5f;
  --accent-4: #6b7a3a;
  --font-display: "Shippori Mincho", serif;
  --font-text: "Archivo", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints: Đông Hồ printing is a living family craft. In 2025 UNESCO inscribed it on its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, noting that only a small number of families continue it and that their carved blocks are heirlooms; Vietnamese press counts about three households. Machine-printed fakes also undercut the workshops, so commission, buy from or credit the Đông Hồ workshops rather than tracing their designs. Do not invent pseudo-Hán captions or strip the real ones for decoration; the carved inscriptions state each print's meaning. Treat worship prints, including Hàng Trống images for the Mother Goddess cult and for temples, as devotional objects rather than decor, and keep Vietnamese diacritics intact.

Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics: Katazome and Okinawan bingata are living crafts: bingata is an Okinawan (Ryukyuan) tradition, carried on by dye houses such as the Shiroma family, and is protected as an intangible cultural property, so credit Okinawa and its makers when borrowing its colours and motifs, and do not sell printed or generated imitations as hand-dyed katazome or bingata. Mainland mingei collecting of Okinawan and Korean crafts in the 1930s and 1940s is now read critically against Japan's colonial rule over Korea and its treatment of annexed Okinawa, which is one more reason to name Okinawan makers rather than present bingata as Serizawa's invention. Serizawa's and Yunoki's designs are authored works held by their museums: work in the manner rather than copying a calendar or screen. His Buddhist subjects, such as the 1939 scroll of the priest Hōnen, are devotional images, not decoration. Kana and kanji must be real, correct text checked by a fluent reader, never pseudo-script used as texture.

The two styles

1600–present · Southeast Asia Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints Vietnam's two classic folk-print schools, bought for Tết. Đông Hồ families press each colour from its own carved block onto giấy điệp, dó paper brushed with ground scallop shell whose streaked, faintly sparkling surface serves as the white, and print the black line last. Plump animals and children, folk tales and satire such as the Rats' Wedding carry a short Hán or Nôm caption. In Hanoi's Hàng Trống only the outline was printed and the colour was brushed on in graded vờn washes, mostly for worship images. Kim Hoàng and Làng Sình prints fall outside this entry.

A Japanese-lettered poster shows a large green sea turtle swimming among red fish, cream-colored waves, coral and sea plants beneath a coastal sunset with rocky islands and two birds. Symmetrical floral borders surround the scene, rendered in textured navy, olive, rust red and ochre on cream paper.

1927–present · East Asia Serizawa Katazome and Mingei Stencil-Dye Graphics Japanese folk-craft graphic design made by cutting paper stencils and dyeing through a rice-paste resist. Figures, tools, houses, plants and kana or kanji are cut as one stencil, so letters and pictures share the same soft, hand-cut edge and sit as flat fields of earth, indigo and bingata red on undyed cloth or washi. Serizawa used it for calendars, book covers, screens and picture books, setting small everyday scenes in grids of panels or repeating them across the cloth.

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