Sentences with phrase «carved wood block prints»

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When Gutenberg was a young man, someone in Western Europe invented block printing (already used for centuries in China), in which «printers» carved outlines of words or pictures on a block of wood and then inked them for the «press.»

This depiction of the world as Ptolemy knew it, published in a 1482 edition of Geographia, was printed from carved wood blocks.

She works in India's age - old technique of block printing where the designs are applied by hand with stamps carved from wood.

The breed is depicted throughout the centuries in paintings, block prints, wood carvings, line drawings and tapestries.

Baselitz enjoys the struggle involved in carving the wood block, and he uses the evidence of this battle, along with the texture of the wood grain, to expressive advantage in the prints themselves.

The print was made by carving a single block of wood into pieces and inking each one with a different color.

A print made from an image carved into a block of wood cut along the grain.

She was famous for her complex woodblock prints of oriental carpets that required multiple intricately carved blocks of wood.