Abstract
Woodcut printing is one of the oldest printing techniques of making prints from a wooden relief surface. It was used in priority to decorate textiles, through a technique, now known as block printing. Such woodcuts started to be used on paper much later with the use of paper in France and Germany at the end of the 14th century, but date back to as old as 5th century China. Early woodcut prints would be very basic and experimental in nature, with essential shading and prominent outlines. Most of the early woodcuts as is the case of paintings were religious in nature. Albrecht Dürer and his followers Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein were important artists from Europe who perfected the black line and improved upon the existing practice of woodcut prints. Woodcut prints ever since then, have been used in Europe for illustrations in books.
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This is the very basic idea behind the art of printmaking. Printmaking is about making an image of the opposite, literally onto paper. It is an amalgamation of drawing, carving and printing skills all in one. The woodcut, wood engraving and linoleum cut all belong in the relief group of original printmaking as distinctly different from the intaglio and planographic groups. Relief prints in general are printed from a flat surface in which the white patterns in the design have been removed by knife or graver, used by the artist leaving the black patterns standing in relief to receive the ink 'film' and the block with this ink is used to produce the print. The best example used to explain to everyone is to cite the similarity of the rubber stamp to the relief block - each gains its final print from the same method. Although there are four traditional printing method – relief, lithography, serigraphy and intaglio, woodcuts is one of the oldest printmaking process there is. The following introduction gives a brief over view of woodcut prints in technique and