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Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on woodblock printing The History of Chinese Bookbinding: the case of Dunhuang findings
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 (1603–1868).
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
The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing.
Woodblock printing on textiles is the process of printing patterns on fabrics, typically linen, cotton, or silk, by means of carved wooden blocks. The 'woodblock' is known as chhapa in South Asian countries like India , Burma , Bangladesh , Nepal and Pakistan .
Block printing in India is the traditional use of woodblock fabric printing in India. It is traditional and has a number of local variations. [ 1 ] It consists of stamping colored designs on fabric using specially carved wooden blocks.
The history of Woodblock printing in Korea (목판인쇄) contains a famous history like the Tripitaka Koreana. The world's oldest surviving woodblock print is thought to be The Great Dharani Sutra , a small Buddhist scroll discovered at Bulguksa Temple in Gyeongju , South Korea , in 1966.
Wooden movable types in the China Printing Museum, Beijing. Both in China and Europe, printing from a woodblock preceded printing with movable type. [12]Along with clay movable type, wooden movable type was invented in China by Bi Sheng in 1040s CE/AD, although he found clay type more satisfactory, and it was first formally used to print by Wang Zhen.