Your design, in ceramic relief
For brands, museums, venues and merchandise programmes. No mould and no plate, so one design runs across every format. Custom orders start at 100 pieces of one design.
Send us your design and we make it in ceramic relief or 3D texture: the tile is masked with a laser-cut film, sandblasted, and the design built up in layers of UV ink. There is no mould, so the same design can be produced as a magnet, a tile, a framed piece or a set. Sampling takes 5–7 days and production 20–30 days.
Send the image
A high-resolution image is the one thing we genuinely need. Alongside it: the size you want, where it will hang, and a framing preference if you have one. No CAD, no technical drawing, no design skills.
We prepare the files
Your image is prepared for production — the file the laser cuts the mask from, and the file the printer works from, set up in channels that control where the ink is built up. This is the step that replaces tooling, and it is where we tell you honestly whether the image will work well or not.
Sampling
A physical sample of your artwork in the chosen surface. Photographs of relief are unconvincing in both directions — they undersell it in flat light and oversell it in raking light — so this step is not optional for surface work.
Made, printed, framed
Masked with a laser-cut film, sandblasted, then built up in layers of UV ink — as relief or 3D texture — and framed. Lead time moves with quantity, so tell us the number early; it changes the schedule more than the image does.
One design, every format
Because nothing is tooled, the same artwork runs from a fridge magnet to a framed set. Each of these has been produced.
Fridge magnet
A small tile with a magnetic sheet across the back, supplied in a display box, in retail packaging or in a small frame. The entry point of a merchandise range, and the format that shows the relief still reads at the smallest size.
Unframed tile
The artwork panel on its own, no frame. Used where a client has their own display, mounts it into a fixture, or wants the lowest-cost format above a magnet.
Disc on a stand
A round panel with a small wooden display stand. Sits on a desk, a shelf or a counter without any wall fixing.
Tassel pendant
A small round panel drilled top and bottom, finished with a knotted cord, beads and a tassel. Produced in matched colourways across a set.
Framed piece
The artwork in a wood or aluminium alloy frame, at any size the design supports. Hangs, stands on a fold-out stand or pin, or both on the same piece.
Table screen
A panel held upright in a wooden table-screen stand — a traditional Chinese desk piece that sits on a desk, shelf or counter without any wall fixing.
Multi-piece set
Several panels supplied together — matched subjects, a size ladder of one design, or a series meant to hang as a group.
What the process handles
Samples made to prove range. These are not designs to choose from — they show how relief and 3D texture cope with different kinds of image.
Cloud and lotus forms in relief, the colour held to each outline.
Loquats and a bird: rounded fruit, leaf veins and fine feathering on a gold-tone ground.
Red-crowned cranes at wall scale, each feather a separate raised form.
Flat colour planes stepping down through several distinct heights.
3D texture: brushstrokes built up in UV ink. Shown on a wood panel; the same texture is made on tile.
Traditional opera figures京剧人物
Fine line work and costume detail
Lion dance醒狮
Dense colour and fur texture
Shadow puppets皮影
Repeat production of one design across a set
Kites and folk motifs风筝 · 民俗纹样
Symmetry and flat graphic colour
City landmarks城市地标
Architectural detail at small scale
Ink landscape水墨山水
Tonal gradation and fine line
Line work, flat graphic colour, photographic detail and painterly texture each behave differently in relief and in 3D texture. Send your design and we will tell you at the planning stage which suits it.
What to send
None of it is mandatory to start a conversation. All of it makes the first answer closer to right.
- Your image
- High resolution. This is the one thing we really need
- Target dimensions
- Image size in mm
- Quantity
- From 100 pieces of one design
- Installation environment
- Which room, and how the piece will be fixed
- Framing preference
- Wood decorative frame · Metal decorative frame · Rear support frame
- Delivery location
- For freight and packing
- Required timing
- Any fixed date, said early
Quoted per project
A quote is built from sampling, materials and processing, the framing and rear support you choose, packing, and freight with any agreed duties — plus artwork development where a design is developed on the ODM route. Each line is stated rather than folded into one number. Planning is not charged.
We do not publish a price list, and we do not publish cost multipliers per effect. Cost moves with the artwork, the worked area, framing, packing and quantity together — a coefficient attached to the name of an effect would be a guess dressed up as a rate.
Custom work starts at 100 pieces of one design. There is no mould or plate to pay for, so the cost of a run sits in the materials, the processing, the finishing and the packing rather than in tooling.
Care
Dust with a soft dry cloth. When wiping is needed, test an inconspicuous area first, use a barely damp soft cloth and dry it promptly. Whether a neutral cleaner may be used depends on the surface finish of the piece. Avoid abrasives, stiff brushes, strong solvents and prolonged wetting.
Questions about custom work
Is there a minimum order for custom work?
Yes: 100 pieces of one design. Before the run, a paid sample of one piece lets you judge the design in hand. Finished pieces we already hold in stock, such as some Thangka designs, can be bought singly.
Can the minimum be split across several designs?
No. The minimum applies to each design. If a range needs several designs, each one starts at the minimum.
What makes a good image to work from?
Resolution first — the file has to hold up at the finished size. Beyond that, images with clear outlines and a clear separation between subject and background suit relief, while brushwork and painterly texture suit 3D texture. We will tell you honestly at the planning stage if an image will not work well. Planning is not charged, and finding out then is much cheaper than finding out on a sample.
Relief or 3D texture — which should I choose?
It follows from the image. Relief suits clear outlines and shapes: graphic work, line drawing, gongbi painting, Thangka. 3D texture suits painterly images, where brushstrokes and impasto are part of the picture. Send the design and we will say which carries it better, and the sample settles it.
How long does the whole thing take?
Sampling is 5–7 days, then production is 20–30 days depending on quantity. Those are the sampling and production windows on their own — they do not include approval time on your side or freight, and delivery dates are confirmed with the order.
Do you work from my own artwork?
That is the normal route. Send the image, the dimensions and any framing intent, and we prepare it for production and quote against it. Where we think a surface or a material will not carry your image well we say so before quoting, but the specification stays yours. Please let us know about any confidentiality or sample-use requirements before placing your order so these can be reviewed and agreed in writing.
What does the sample actually prove?
Colour, surface and how the image reads at real size. It does not prove structural or transit behaviour for a large piece — that is confirmed separately, because a small swatch and a 1200 × 2400 mm panel behave very differently in a crate.
Got a design? That's all we need to start.
Planning is not charged, and sampling takes 5–7 days.