woodblock
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- noun
- /ˈwʊdˌblɑk/
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bloque de madera
- The artist created beautiful images using a woodblock carved with intricate patterns.
- woodblock print
- woodblock-printed painting
We want to make these things into gorgeous woodblock prints.
- We want to make these things into gorgeous woodblock prints.
- I was delighted when they've contacted me with the idea to create a series of woodblock prints from this original oxide drawings.
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From the invention of woodblock printing around the sixth century to the mid-sixteenth century, only a few illustrated books on art were produced.
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Chinese scrolls and Japanese woodblock prints hung on the walls.
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We want to make these things into gorgeous woodblock prints.
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And what's interesting about this is you start to get fabulous designs from woodblock prints.
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As noted, woodblock-printed manuals were consumed and valued in China and Korea in different ways.
Academic text (2015) -
The walls are covered with woodblock prints and calligraphy scrolls.
Fiction book (1996) -
Dusty sunlight streams in through the high windows, lighting up the room and the framed woodblock prints.
Fiction book (1996) -
The woodblock prints produced by the court, even when they employ European pictorial techniques, do not have cross-hatching.
Academic text (2014) -
There is nothing on the walls except for one woodblock print of a captive samurai, his wrists tied behind his back.
Fiction book (1996) -
Hedges added that studying the prints, rather than the much rarer woodblocks themselves, provides better and more accurate information.
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Synonyms
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A picture printed from a carved block of wood or the carved block itself
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A block of wood with a carved design used to make prints on paper or cloth
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Etymology
Woodblock comes from the simple parts wood and block, literally a 'block' or piece of 'wood' carved by an artist to 'print' pictures and patterns. So a woodblock is a carved wooden board used to press ink onto paper or fabric to make prints.