Crossword clues for woodblock
Wiktionary
n. 1 A woodcut. 2 A wood block (musical instrument). 3 A wooden block used as a printing form. 4 (context philately English) The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.
Wikipedia
Woodblock may refer to:
- The wood block, a percussion instrument
- A woodblock or woodcut is used in woodblock printing, a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood, which is then inked, and the image is stamped onto a page
- Woodblock graffiti is a type of graffiti originated in Chicago
Usage examples of "woodblock".
Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.
The complete Tibetan canon was not printed from woodblocks in Tibet until 1731 at sNar-thang: a later edition was printed at Derge from metal plates but the use of metal to make plates for printing is exceptional.
PETER LOVESEY CRIME: Crime of passion PLACE: Surrey and France YEAR: 1985 BRIEFING: Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.
Corder Figure' PETER LOVESEY CRIME: Crime of passion PLACE: Surrey and France YEAR: 1985 BRIEFING: Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.
The housekeeper's little skivvy, that she keeps to fetch, carry and lick boot, just topping the tea-cup up with old Jamaica, all hell breaks loose below stairs as if a Chinese orchestra started up its woodblocks and xylophones, crash, wallop.
I've found old typecases, composing sticks, a primitive cylinder press, woodblocks - all kinds of surprises.
From each jet motor a blast of nearly invisible flame poured down, and the moisture in the earth turned into steam and stray woodblocks into acrid smoke.
Some almost hid the shunga, erotic woodblock prints, hung on the walls.
And one night, during the tidal bore of the eighth moon, when the Chientang River roared with high waves and there were many visitors in the city, in the hour before the woodblocks and the weathermen's cries, Bold was awakened by a gentle tug on the ear, then the firm pressure of a hand over his mouth.
On the walls were two contemporary lithographs clumsily playing upon the delicacy of traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints, combining them with images of the West: the Statue of Liberty, the front end of a vintage Corvette, a hamburger dripping ketchup.
On the walls were two contemporary lithographs clumsily playing upon the delicacy of traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints, combining them with images of the West: the Statue of Liberty, the front end of a vintage Corvette, a hamburger dripping ketchup.