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Art History 127 Woodblock Printing Project

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Uploaded by Jordan Reabold on 2016-03-06.

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STATIONARY AND ENTERTAINMENT
Block-printed stationery products include Chinese draft paper and copybooks.
The draft paper comes in a choice of 9-squares, 400-grids and 500-grids, usually printed in green, black or red on white. The copybooks are for elementary school and advanced students. The ‘red character copy books’ are usually for the very young beginners to practice tracing of Chines
NEW YEAR PRINTS
New Year prints are the festive decorations for Chinese people. To ring in the New Year, people would conduct a ‘winter cleaning’ and put up new decorations at home

Woodblocks and Prints of Military Door Gods, Da Lai Quan Foshan, Guangdong Early 20th Century

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The earliest surviving example of Woodblock printing is a Chinese print in the three colours of the Han dynasty on silk, which is believed to date back to around 220 AD. It’s known that woodblock printing developed in Asia several centuries before it did in Europe, where the Chinese were the first to use this particular process to print solid text.

In Europe, the printing of these types of images onto cloth were further developed into the printing of images on paper, with these being commonly known as ‘woodcuts’.  The use of these techniques in Europe in order to print substantial amounts of text together with images in a block-book format only arose after the development of movable type, which is the system of combining printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document.

This was developed by Bi Sheng, a Chinese inventor, about four hundred years later.

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However, the efficiency that we now see in today’s printing process owes a great deal to the early pioneers who wanted to record words and images in a printed format and often used a great deal of artistic skill and patience to do so.

One such method that inspired future generations to record events in a printed format was the process of Woodblock Printing, which originated in ancient China.