ARCHES® is the paper mill that offers the most extensive range of fine art papers made on a cylinder mould.
ARCHES® Aquarelle paper gelatin sized “to the core” is a reference among papers, chosen by artists all over the world. It is only paper in the world made by this unique method.
Among the many papers in the range, we find emblematic names like Velin d’ARCHES® and Velin BFK Rives®.
Artists and graphic arts professionals know that in the ARCHES® Collection they will find the ideal paper for their technique and sensitivity.
Alun Kirby is an English cyanotypist artist based in Portugal. He exclusively uses ARCHES®️ Watercolor paper to print his cyanotypes.
Bernard Guidot explains to us the characteristics of his job as a forklift truck driver, which he exercised with rigor and good humor during his career at the Arches Paper Mill.
ARCHES® is a Living Heritage Company (Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant, EPV), a certification that recognises its ancestral know-how in the area of the manufacturing high-quality paper.
In 1492, master papermakers were already making paper by hand in the Arches paper mill located in the Vosges region of France. The Arches paper mill is now the only one in France to manufacture all its fine art and printing papers using cylinder moulds.
The cylinder mould process combined with the use of a natural raw material – cotton – produces very high quality paper that is as good as the finest handmade papers. This traditional method is the best way of making luxury paper that is stable, watermarked, with a natural grain and deckle edges.
Great artists like Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou Ki, Roy Lichtenstein, Bernard Buffet, Andy Warhol, Pierre Alechinsky, and many more, have produced some of their major works on ARCHES® paper.
They are our best ambassadors. Their choice bears witness to the outstanding quality and permanence of ARCHES® papers.
And today ARCHES® still remains the undisputed reference for all artists.
