This is a Very Decorative Vintage. Colored Woodblock Print that depicts a Realistic Portrait of. This print also has. It also has a White Matting and a Black Vintage Decor Frame. This piece was previously found at a nice Estate Sale and has some age. The print itself measures 9″ x 12″ and with the frame it all measures 12 ” x 16 “. It weighs around 1-2 pounds and it’s ready to be part of any Home Decor… Is a technique for. Or patterns used widely throughout. In antiquity as a method of. Method of printing on cloth. The earliest surviving examples from. Date to before 220 AD, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Is the best known type of. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term. Produced mainly in the 15th century. The wood block is carefully prepared as a relief. Pattern, which means the areas to show’white’ are cut away with a knife, chisel, or sandpaper leaving the characters or image to show in’black’ at the original surface level. The block was cut along the grain of the wood. It is necessary only to ink the block and bring it into firm and even contact with the paper or cloth to achieve an acceptable print. The content would of course print “in reverse” or mirror-image, a further complication when text was involved. The art of carving the woodcut is technically known as xylography. Though the term is rarely used in English. For colour printing, multiple blocks are used, each for one colour, although overprinting two colours may produce further colours on the print. Multiple colours can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks. (Please see all photos for details). Give a present that will last a lifetime… (US customers only – excludes PR, HI, AK). Please view our other listings for more art, frames, and antiques. The item “Estate Found Vintage Japanese Woodblock art Framed” is in sale since Tuesday, July 17, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “vistaart” and is located in North Hollywood, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Bahamas, Viet nam.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Painting Surface: Paper
- Medium: Ink
- Region of Origin: Asia
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Primary Material: Paper
- Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
- Features: Framed
- Originality: Original
