December 16, 2012

What means Woodcut?

Woodcut is a kind of engraving.

This is basically consists in engrave a image in a wood board, cover with paint and "stamp" in the paper.

The wood board with engraved art is called matrix, it's like a handmade stamp. With the matrix it's possible to make several prints of the same work.

To learn more about it: Wikipedia - Woodcut

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