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Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper.
Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The areas to show 'white' are cut away with a knife or chisel, leaving the characters or image ...
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
Bowman Studios was a Tampa, Florida based producer of cypress wood postcards in the 1940s. [2] Images on their wooden postcards included azaleas, red hibiscus, pelicans and a Carolina landscape. [2] [3] Many early wood postcards are printed with colored images while others were marked by pyrography (woodburning) or a combination of the two ...
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The success of the Christmas card grew into a business letters, postcards, and greeting cards with envelopes. [1] Rust revolutionized the use of the "French Fold," which turned a single piece of paper into a card by folding it into quarters. [1] [2] They were the first company to sell greeting cards with a fitted envelope. [3]
It is dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type used in letterpress printing. The museum is located in a factory building of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company founded in 1880 by J.E. Hamilton. [6] The museum has a collection of over 1.5 million pieces in more than 1,000 styles of wood type. [7]