Characteristics of engraved printing

Characteristics of engraved printing:

1, engraved printing techniques used in the material, must be selected for fine grain, texture uniformity, easy processing, more resources of wood. In order to obtain local materials, the northern engraved version of the pear, jujube and other wood, the southern engraved version of the poplar, catalpa wood, etc..

2, engraved printing techniques used in the ink is also more distinctive, most of the use of pine smoke and other raw materials, secret recipe preparation, so the fragrance, never fade.

3, engraved printing techniques used by the tools are mainly carving knives and spatulas, the shape and size of a variety of specifications. Carving different sizes of text and different parts of the text, are to use different carving knife.

Extended information:

Engraving printing in the history of printing is a "living fossil", Yangzhou is the birthplace of Chinese engraving. Yangzhou is one of the birthplaces of Chinese engraved printing, is the only city in China to preserve a full set of ancient engraved printing technology, the state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

Engraving printing is in a certain thickness of smooth wooden boards, pasted with neatly copied manuscripts, thin and nearly transparent manuscript paper front and boards, the word becomes the reverse body, the strokes are clearly recognizable.

Carvers used a carving knife to cut away the part of the page without writing, it became the font protruding Yangwen, and the font is very different from the concave tablet Yinwen. When printing, ink was applied to the raised font, then paper was overlaid on top of it, and the back of the paper was gently brushed, and the writing stayed on the paper.

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