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Baren Digest                Sunday, 8 March 1998        Volume 02 : Number 089

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From: Dan Wasserman <dwasser@slam.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 09:50:22 -0800
Subject: [Baren 464] Re: Baren Digest V2 #88 

Baren:

julio wrote: 
> ... a plywood block as your base and then you glue harwood
> cutouts for your raised areas. 

My recollection is that there is a traditional Chineese woodblock
technique where paintings are replicated by cutting out each brushmark
as a tiny separate piece of wood and positioning these tiny *blocks* on
a table surface with sticky melted wax.  

The paper for the run is nailed to the edge of the table to one side of
the print area.  Each sheet is lowered into a narrow slot parallel and
close to that edge where it is fastned to get it out of the way of the
next sheet to be printed while leaving it still fixed to the edge for
registration of further impressions.  

The inking is done in the conventional waterbased manner by brushing
each little ellement seperatly.

~dan

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