How to make "handmade letterpress"?

Materials: mastic, lettering knife, wooden slats.

Methods:

First of all, the production of movable type: 1. Make the clay into a rectangular seal style, the size of the font size you need to set, all the "clay seal" length, width and height should be the same size.

2. In the clay seal on one end of the square with a carving knife carving the need for a word (yin or yang, the word like the seal is the opposite).

3. Let a lot of clay seals dry.

4. The dried clay seals are fired in a wood or charcoal fire.

The next step is the production of movable type frame: use wooden slats to make a frame, the thickness of the wooden slats should be less than the height of the "movable type" 3-5 mm. The length and width of the wooden frame should be "cement seal" size of an integer multiple, and then a few millimeters longer in order to install the "word" with.

Finally, the "living words" will be discharged in the order of the wooden frame, with a sponge dipped in pigment evenly coated in the living words, and then covered with white paper in the "living words" on top, and then use the "cloth packets "After gently and evenly patting the paper surface, the paper is immediately removed from the "movable type" printing board to dry, and a finished product of movable type printing is ready.

Printing with movable type is an ancient printing method that was invented by the ancient Chinese working people after a long period of practice and research. First, a mold of a single character is made, then the character is selected according to the manuscript, arranged in the character tray, inked and printed, and then the mold is removed after printing, to be used again in the next printing.

The invention of movable type printing was a great technological revolution in the history of printing. The invention of clay movable type by Bi Sheng (970-1051) in China during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048) marked the birth of movable type printing. He was the world's first inventor, some 400 years before the German Johannes Gutenberg's movable type printing. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen succeeded in creating wooden movable type, and also invented the rotating wheel typesetting. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, copper movable type was more widely used in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places in Jiangsu Province.