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The earliest woodblock printing known is in colour—Chinese silk from the Han dynasty printed in three colours. [4] Colour is very common in Asian woodblock printing on paper; in China the first known example is a Diamond sutra of
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
Movable type was invented by Chinese artisan Bi Sheng in the 11th century during the Song dynasty, but it received limited use compared to woodblock printing. However, the use of copper movable types was documented in a Song-era book from 1193, and the earliest printed paper money using movable metal type to print the identifying codes were ...
A Chinese printed playing card dated c. 1400 AD, Ming dynasty, found near Turpan, measuring 9.5 by 3.5 cm.. Playing cards may have been invented during the Tang dynasty around the ninth century AD as a result of the usage of woodblock printing technology.
Yet, copying books by hand was still labour-consuming. Not until the Xiping Era (172–178 AD), towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, did sealing print and monotype appear. These were used to print designs on fabrics and to print texts. By about the 8th century during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was invented and worked as follows ...
In Korea, printing began during the Goryeo Dynasty and greatly developed during the Joseon Dynasty, but woodblock printing continued to flourish until the end of the Joseon Dynasty. This is believed to be because the typesetting of movable type was not strong, so there was a limit to the number of copies that could be printed at the same time.
The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum) 11th-century print of Lienü zhuan 14th-century print of Sanguozhi Pinghua The direct translation of 'Banhua' is 'printed picture', it is a general term for original prints or printmaking as an art form.
Although movable type and woodblock printing would remain the dominant types of printing methods for centuries, the European printing press (employing the Hellenistic screw-press) was eventually adopted by East Asian countries. The Bencao on traditional Chinese medicine; printed with woodblock in 1249, Song dynasty