Studio edition · Natural finish
Heritage N° 01 · 2026
The Quiet Room Mat
龙 舒 席 · 手 工 编 织
A larger mat for a tea table, a bench or a window seat. Natural Xiaoye water bamboo, a soft herringbone, and a surface that grows quieter with use.
Hand-split Xiaoye water bamboo, winter-cut and shade-dried. Natural plant dye and smoke finish. Linen binding thread. No lacquer, no synthetic sealant.
- Species
- Xiaoye shuizhu (small-leaf water bamboo)
- Weave
- Herringbone · 0.2mm strips
- Made in
- Linshui Zhai, Shucheng, Anhui
Studio mat: 60 × 120 cm. Heritage mat: 70 × 140 cm. Entry kit: 24 × 36 cm finished. Keep out of direct sun; wipe with a barely damp cloth and dry flat. Roll, do not fold, for storage.
Woven to order and dispatched from Anhui within 3–5 working days. Complimentary worldwide shipping over $150. Unused pieces may be returned within 30 days; made-to-order and numbered editions are final sale.
The Heritage edition includes a folded dossier: the harvest village and month, the maker's mark, a short history of the Longshu tribute mat and the numbered certificate signed by Su Chengjun.
手作
Signed by the maker. Every Heritage edition carries Su Chengjun's brush signature and clay seal. Studio and Entry pieces carry the workshop's woven mark.
Entry tells the making.
Studio tells the room.
Heritage tells the line.
The same product page can speak to three different intentions. Instead of one generic description, each edition is introduced through the story its buyer is actually looking for.
01 Entry · The experience
A first weave,
in two quiet hours.
The Entry edition leads with process, not provenance. Everything difficult has been prepared: strips cut to width, dyes fixed, edges bevelled. What remains is the pleasure of learning a rhythm — over, under, tighten, repeat — and the small surprise of holding a surface you made.
02 Studio · The space
A quieter surface
for the everyday.
The Studio edition leads with atmosphere. A mat is a stage: it gives a tea set a boundary, softens a wooden bench, and introduces a tactile layer between the body and the architecture. The language here is spatial — texture, tone, shadow, the way a room settles.
03 Heritage · The lineage
A numbered object
with a long memory.
The Heritage edition leads with history. Before the materials, the buyer meets the evidence: Warring States tomb fragments, Ming tribute lists, the 1915 Panama medal. Then the maker: Su Chengjun, third generation, signing the base of a mat numbered one of fifty. The object is a certificate as much as a surface.
Set it down.
Let the room settle.
Three quiet placements, photographed in the studio. The mat does not ask for attention; it changes how everything around it is seen.
Under tea.
Under light.
Place the mat beneath a tea set, a bowl of fruit, or a single branch. Leave the edges visible. The herringbone will catch the light in one direction and soften it in another — the room does the rest.
More room studies
“A mat should
outlive the conversation
it was made for.”
Su Chengjun has worked at the Longshu loom for more than four decades. Each Heritage mat is woven in his workshop, burnished by hand, and signed in ink before it leaves the village.
Smaller quiet.
Objects from the same workshop, made for the table and the shelf.
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