While written language is unquestionably one of the most important of all human achievements, the ability to reproduce written materials quickly and efficiently ranks not far behind. Only when written works could be duplicated in quantities and speeds...

A significant sector of the economies of Central Asian countries, woodworking produces a variety of products, the most important of which are round logs, lumber, wood-based panels, paper and paperboard, wood pulp, and furniture. Forest and other wooded...

Many centuries before the invention of the printing press in Europe, the Chinese developed a form of printing using carved wooden blocks. Two earlier Chinese inventions, paper and ink, paved the way for block printing; so too did the practice of using...

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving...

A RARE CHANCE to take in the whole sweep of a fine artist's work at a glance is offered in the Sackler Gallery's jewel-box exhibition of the color woodblock prints of Hashiguchi Goyo. Goyo (1880-1921) is credited with reviving the art in Japan...

Tucked away in a Georgetown row house, the Shogun Gallery has made a business of what is considered by many to be a truly Japanese art form. The gallery deals in woodblock prints, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, made by Japanese craftsmen...

If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash. Lots...