Question

describe the woodblock printing .

Answer 1

Woodblock printing is a technique for printingtext, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in Chinain antiquity as a method of printing on textilesand later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD. Woodblock printing existed in Tang China during the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-e is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century in India.

Answer 2

Description Of The Woodblock Printing.

• Woodblock printing also known as block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns which are used largely throughout East Asia and originated in China in ancientness as a technique of printing on textiles and it was later also used for printing on paper.

• Every page or image is composed by carving a wooden block for leaving only some regions and lines at the original level and it is these pages or images that are inked and shown in the print in a process of relief printing.

• Carving the blocks is skilled and strenuous work, but a vast number of ideas can then be printed.

• Woodblock printing is a manner of relief printing in which artists use carved wooden blocks for pressing designs onto textiles or paper.

• The beginning of the printing press and other techniques ultimately led to less of a necessity for woodblock printmaking.

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