Safely Carving Woodblocks, Woodcuts and Linocuts
By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim No matter what type of carving that I am doing, one thing I hate is being cut. For that reason, I take every precaution to prevent…
How do Woodblocks, Woodcuts and Wood Engravings Differ?
By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim In discussing relief printing with blocks of wood, three similar terms used are often misused. These are “woodblock”, “woodcut” and “wood engraving”. Admittedly I have used…
The Division of Labor in Ancient Japanese Print Production
By Jim Hingst The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Hokusai c. 1830. (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, PD-1923.) Long before Henry Ford instituted the principle of the division…