Block printing (also called Relief printing) is the process of carving patterns, shapes and designs into a 'block'. The 'block' could be made of wood, acrylic plastic sheet, lino (linoleum) or metal.

metal or acrylic sheets can produce fine lines with sharp detail wood and lino are well suited to bold images The drawback with these materials is that each mark on the printing sheet will be printed, ...

Woodblock printing is a quintessential example of art transcending history and border throughout the South Asian subcontinent. It originated in China, and remained to be the most non-communal method ...

Don’t be surprised to spot Ajrakh, one of the oldest block printing techniques in the world, on your next shopping jaunt in the US or the UK. Thanks to a number of independent ethical brands, the ...

ひょんなことから、2週間半のインド旅に出ている。学生時代から来たかったけど来そびれてたインド。その中でも、手仕事、特に布製品（織物・刺繍などなど）が好きな私は“Block Printing”というインドの伝統的な技法に惹かれていた。 Block Printing ...

These are the days of graphic emblazoned t-shirts and digital printed dresses. And yet, uniqueness continues to reign in the fashion spectrum. The heritage craft of creating designs on fabric using ...

In a day and age where most everything we purchase is mass-produced, there’s something magical about the beauty found in the slowness of handmade goods. Block printed textiles are lovely in part ...

KARACHI: It was a slow day at work for Amjad Ahmed. But then, almost every day had been so for the past few years. Ahmed, who runs a block printing shop in North Karachi, has been working since the ...

Painter Kelly Witmer’s work often depicts geometric pattern on repeat, similar to the final product of a block-printed textile or canvas. This made-to-order piece features a soothing sky-blue palette ...

In Jaipur and its neighbouring districts in Northwest India, a 300-year-old tradition is dying a slow, gradual death. Woodblock printing, the craft as we know it today, which we have also come to ...