As Wen Li attached her handmade Liangping woodblock print featuring door gods — an item of national intangible cultural heritage — to her front door, she knew this Spring Festival would be ...

A visitor views New Year prints at Splendid Beginnings on Woodblocks at the Capital Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Ancient and modern woodblock New Year prints produced in ...

What is going on in the setting? How would it be different if the figures had different facial expressions? How would you describe the colors? The shapes? The lines? How would you describe the people ...

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...

A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Demons Emerge from a Large, Wooden Chest is a gorgeous woodblock print by Kawanable Kyōsai. The print was made in 1890. It's from his book Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, which features a ...

It started in China around 255BC. More than 2000 years ago in Egypt, woodblock printing was being used to print patterns onto fabric. The advantage of printmaking is that lots of copies of the ...