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  2. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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    The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, the world's earliest printed text containing a date of production, AD 868 (British Library) 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 ...

  3. Woodblock printing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e [1] artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603 ...

  4. Conservation and restoration of woodblock prints - Wikipedia

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    The conservation and restoration of woodblock prints, is the process of caring for and repairing images made from a specific printing process involving using wooden reliefs to stamp or imprint an image onto paper. The process of creating woodblock prints as Asian examples are known, or woodcuts as Western examples are called, has been known for ...

  5. Woodcut - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges —leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to ...

  6. Wood engraving - Wikipedia

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    The beginnings of modern wood engraving techniques developed in the late 17th century, by which time publishers of quality books only used the relief printing of wood blocks for small images in the text such as initials, taking advantage of relief printing blocks to be fitted into the same forme or set-up page as the letterpress type of the text.

  7. List of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia

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    Authorship of many woodcuts is uncertain, with different sources disagreeing if the woodcut was made by Dürer alone, with help of one of his students, or by one of his students with or without Dürer supervision. For some prints we also have only copies from late printings, which could be by Dürer or a copy of a lost print by him.

  8. David Bull (craftsman) - Wikipedia

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    woodblock.com. David Bull (born 11 November 1951) is a Canadian ukiyo-e woodblock printer and carver who heads the Mokuhankan studio in Asakusa, Tokyo. [1][2] Born in Britain, Bull moved to Canada at the age of 5. He first discovered Japanese woodblocks while working in a music shop in 1980 in Toronto, at 28, and started making his own prints ...

  9. List of woods - Wikipedia

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    Red cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) Wild cherry (Prunus avium) Chestnut (Castanea spp.) Chestnut (Castanea sativa) American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum) Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa) Corkwood (Leitneria floridana) Cottonwood, popular.

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