Who we are

Art Painting by Numbers is a manufacturer of paint by numbers kits based in Tianjin, China. We operate our own factory, employ our own production and design staff, and export directly to brands, retailers, distributors and online sellers across North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Middle East and East Asia. We are not a trading company, a sourcing agent or a marketplace storefront — the people who quote your order are the people who make it.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. When something goes wrong with a kit — a paint colour that does not match the proof, a canvas where the numbers print too faintly, a box that crushes in transit — a trader can only relay messages. We can walk to the line and fix it. It also means the price you are quoted has no intermediary margin inside it, and the lead time you are given is the lead time our own production plan says, not an estimate padded for someone else's uncertainty.

Founded in 2021, we started by making DIY painting kits for domestic Chinese retailers before turning the business towards export. Today the majority of our output ships overseas, and our factory covers 5,000 m² with dedicated lines for canvas printing, paint colour matching and filling, brush assembly, kitting and packaging. We produce approximately 250,000 sets/month sets per month.

Why we exist

Paint by numbers sits at an unusual intersection. It is a craft product, a mental-health product, a gift product and a home decoration product at the same time, and the people who buy it are rarely buying a canvas — they are buying three quiet evenings and a finished thing to hang on a wall. That is why the quality of small components matters so much. A brush that splays or paint that will not cover a dark outline does not just disappoint; it ends the experience halfway, and the customer blames themselves rather than the kit.

Our aim is to make kits that people finish, and to make it possible for a small brand to launch one without needing container-load capital. Those two goals shape the two decisions buyers notice most about us: a design service that costs nothing, and a minimum order of 100 sets.

Inside the factory

Five departments handle a kit from artwork to carton:

• Design studio. Our professional designers convert artwork and photographs into numbered layouts, optimise colour counts for paintability, resize segments so a standard brush can fill them, and build packaging dielines. This service is free to customers placing production orders.
• Canvas printing. High-resolution printing of numbered outlines on cotton, cotton-blend and linen, with registration checks against the approved proof and legibility checks on the smallest numbers. Canvases are rolled on tubes or stretched over kiln-dried pine frames.
• Paint laboratory and filling. Acrylic paints are mixed to formula, matched against physical swatches or Pantone references under daylight-balanced lighting, then filled into numbered pots, foil-sealed and vacuum-strip packed. Formulations are water-based and non-toxic.
• Brush assembly. High-elasticity nylon filament set into wood, lacquered or engraved handles, in flat, round and detail shapes, tested for tip recovery before packing.
• Kitting, QC and packing. Hand kitting against the canvas colour key, four-stage inspection, AQL 2.5 final sampling, then retail packaging and export cartons built to Amazon or container specifications.

We also produce diamond painting, felt painting, punch-needle embroidery kits and general art and craft supplies on adjacent lines, which allows multi-category buyers to consolidate one shipment and save freight. Detailed capability, specifications and tolerances are set out on our OEM and private label page.

What we make

Standards and compliance

We treat compliance as a manufacturing specification, not a document produced after the fact. Which regime applies depends on your market and your age grading, so we ask for the destination country at quotation stage and build to it.

Standard	Market	What it covers
EN71-1, EN71-2, EN71-3	European Union	Mechanical and physical properties, flammability, migration of heavy metals in toy materials
ASTM F963	United States	Toy safety: physical, mechanical, flammability and chemical requirements
CPSIA	United States	Lead and phthalate limits, tracking labels, children's product certificate
REACH	European Union	Registration and restriction of chemicals in the paint formulation
CE / UKCA marking	EU / UK	Conformity marking for regulated product categories
ISO 9001	Global	Quality management system
BSCI / social audit	Global	Working conditions, hours and wages at the factory

Test reports are arranged through accredited third-party laboratories and issued in your company name where required, so you can present them to a retailer, a marketplace or a customs authority as your own documentation. Current certificates we hold: EN71-3, ASTM F963, SGS, BSCI, ISO 9001. Packaging warnings — poly-bag suffocation notices, age grading, choking-hazard statements and origin marking — are printed to the rules of your destination.

How we like to work with buyers

• Quote fast, quote honestly. Firm pricing within 24 hours, itemised by component so you can see where the money goes and where you could save.
• Sample before committing. We would rather you paint one of our kits than trust a photograph. Sample cost is refunded against your first production order.
• Show the production. Photographs and video at kitting and packing, an AQL report before sealing, and third-party inspection welcomed rather than tolerated.
• Keep your designs yours. NDA available before files move. Your artwork, packaging, colour recipes and customer data are never reused or resold.
• Say no to infringing work. We do not reproduce copyrighted characters, brand logos, sports marks or celebrity likenesses without evidence of licence.

Our practical view is that a supplier relationship should survive the first problem. Every manufacturer eventually ships something imperfect; what separates suppliers is how quickly they acknowledge it and what they do next. Our policy is replacement, credit or refund within 14 days of report, at your choice — see the terms of service.

Where we ship

Our default Incoterm is FOB Tianjin. The port of Tianjin Xingang is roughly an hour's drive from the factory, which keeps inland haulage short and cheap compared with suppliers loading at southern ports — a small advantage per carton that compounds across a container. We also quote EXW, CIF, CFR and DDP, including DDP delivery into Amazon FBA warehouses with FNSKU labels applied. Shipments regularly go to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Freight options, transit times and the volumetric maths that decides whether sea or air is cheaper are covered in FOB Tianjin explained.

Company details

Business name	Art Painting by Numbers
Business type	Manufacturer with own factory (OEM, ODM, private label, white label)
Location	Tianjin, China
Factory address	Room 508, Building 5, No. 100 Youyi Road, Hexi District
Established	2021
Factory area	5,000 m²
Monthly capacity	250,000 sets/month
Main products	Paint by numbers kits, custom photo kits, diamond painting, felt painting, punch-needle kits, art and craft supplies
Main markets	North America, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, Middle East, East Asia
MOQ	50 sets (ready designs) · 100 sets (custom) · none (dropshipping)
Lead time	8–15 days from approved artwork
Incoterms	FOB Tianjin (default), EXW, CIF, CFR, DDP
Payment	T/T 30/70, PayPal, Wise, Alibaba Trade Assurance
Email	[email protected]
Phone / WhatsApp	+86 186 3116 5031

Visit us or meet us in person

Buyers are welcome to tour the factory in Tianjin. Tell us your dates two weeks ahead and we will arrange an agenda covering the print line, paint lab, kitting floor and QC station, plus a meeting with the designers who would handle your artwork. If you would rather meet at a trade fair, we exhibit at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou and at craft and gift fairs in the region — email us for the current schedule and booth number.

The ten services we provide end to end — free design, OEM and ODM manufacturing, private label packaging, wholesale supply, dropshipping fulfilment, sampling, four-stage quality control, compliance testing, FOB Tianjin logistics and after-sales support — are listed with their standards on our services page, and 77 buyer questions are answered on our FAQ.

Prefer to start on paper? Request the design catalogue and price list from the contact page, or read how other buyers structure a first order in how to start a paint by numbers brand.