Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

The cutting of a line block needs patience and care and skill, but it is not the most difficult part of print making, nor is it so hopeless an enterprise as it seems at first to...

Success in printing depends very much on care and orderliness. It is necessary to keep to a fixed arrangement of the position of everything on the work-table and to have all kep...

The paper made by the Japanese from the inner bark of young shoots of the mulberry and certain other plants of similar fibre is beyond all others the best for wood-block printin...

A print is shown at the end of this book (page 95) as an example of a first experiment in co-operative printing. An actual print was needed to illustrate the method of block pri...

Until one has become quite familiar with the craft of wood-block printing it is not possible to make a satisfactory design for a print, or to understand either the full resource...

Introduction and Description of the Origins of Wood-block Printing; its uses for personal artistic expression, for reproduction of decorative designs, and as a fundamental train...

The early stages of any craft are more interesting when we are familiar with the final result. For this reason it is often an advantage to begin at the end.

The wood most commonly used by the Japanese for their printing-blocks is a cherry wood very similar to that grown in England. The Canadian cherry wood, which is more easily obta...

17. COLLOTYPE REPRODUCTION OF A PORTION OF THE PRINT SHOWN ON THE PRECEDING PAGE, ACTUAL SIZE, SHOWING THE TREATMENT OF THE FOLIAGE AND THE EXPRESSIVE DRAWING OF THE TREE-TRUNK...

Introduction and Description of the Origins of Wood-block Printing--Its Uses for Personal Artistic Expression, for Reproduction of Decorative Designs, and as a Fundamental Train...