woodblock printing
woodblock printing noun: a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
Noun
woodblock printing (uncountable)
- A technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
- They adapted these ideas to woodblock printing. They used pear or jujube wood and cut the wood to the size of two book pages. They then smoothed and softened the wood by covering it with paste.2005, Charles Kahn, Ken Osborne, World History: Societies of the Past, Portage & Main Press, →ISBN, page 118
- Woodblock printing was first employed by the Chinese around a.d. 700, and movable type in the middle of the eleventh century. Even the indelible lampblack ink, which has been manufactured in the West under the misnomer “India ink,” […]2011, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Collected Writings on Chinese Culture, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 145
- Synonyms:
- block printing
Synonyms of woodblock printing
Questions about woodblock printing
- What does woodblock printing mean?
- Woodblock printing means a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
- What part of speech is woodblock printing?
- Woodblock printing is a noun.
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