The traditional China engraved block printing technique requires the collaboration ... Finally, when the block is ready to be used, it is covered with ink and pressed by hand onto paper to print the ...

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ... translate and print Buddhist scripture.

Along with Liao’s woodblock print pieces, which he is best known for ... From an early age, he observed his father and older brother, both architects, drawing blueprints. While growing up near ...