
THE ARCHES® RANGE OF ART PAPERS
WHICH ARCHES® PAPER FOR MY TECHNIQUE?
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THE ARCHES® RANGE OF ART PAPERS
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®.
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.
WHICH ARCHES® PAPER FOR MY TECHNIQUE?
Artists and graphic arts professionals know that in the ARCHES® Collection they will find the ideal paper for their technique and sensitivity.
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YOU ARCHES® Gautier Konter, Assistant machine operator at the Arches paper mill
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Yukoring
Our resident artist Yukoring is a Japanese painter and illustrator with a passion for shōjo manga, anime, video games, and more.
Sabine Ziegler
Sabine Ziegler, ARCHES® Resident Artist, presents her favorite work, a very expressive portrait of a dog, created on ARCHES® Aquarelle 300 gsm paper.
Linda Ljungblad
Our Resident Artist Linda Ljungblad presents her favorite work, created in watercolor on 640 g/m² ARCHES® Watercolor fine grain paper. It is a portrait of her grandmother.
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THE SIGNATURE OF A GREAT BRAND
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.





























