Wood-Block Printing / A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

by F. Morley Fletcher

CONTENTS

	CHAPTER I	PAGE
	Introduction and Description of the Origins of
	Wood-block Printing—Its Uses for Personal
	Artistic Expression, for Reproduction of
	Decorative Designs, and as a Fundamental
	Training for Student of Printed Decoration	[1]
	CHAPTER II
	General Description of the Operation of Printing
	from a Set of Blocks	[9]
	CHAPTER III
	Description of the Materials and Tools required
	for Block Cutting	[17]
	CHAPTER IV
	Block Cutting and the Planning of Blocks	[23]
	CHAPTER V
	Preparation of Paper, Ink, Colour, and Paste for
	Printing	[47]
	CHAPTER VI
	Detailed Method of Printing—The Printing
	Tools, Baren and Brushes	[61]
	CHAPTER VII
	Principles and Main Considerations in Designing
	Wood-block Prints—Their Application to
	Modern Colour Printing	[81]
	CHAPTER VIII
	Co-operative Printing	[89]
	APPENDIX
	Prints and Collotype Plates	[94]
	Books of Reference	[129]
	INDEX	[130]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

		PAGE
1.	Plan of Work-table	[11]
2.	Block Mounted with Cross Ends to prevent Warping	[18]
3.	Drawing of the Knife	[19]
4.	Sizes of Chisels	[20]
5.	Short Chisel in Split Handle	[21]
6.	Mallet	[21]
7.	Position of the Hands in using the Knife	[30]
8.	Another Position of the Hands in using the Knife	[31]
9.	Knife Cuts in Section	[33]
10.	Diagram of Knife Cuts	[33]
11.	Method of Holding Gouge	[35]
12.	Clearing of Wood between Knife Cuts	[35]
13.	Position of Register Marks	[37]
14.	Register Marks	[37]
15.	Register Marks (Section of)	[38]
16.	Section of Colour-block	[42]
17.	Drawing of Sizing of Paper	[49]
18.	Cork of Ink-bottle with Wad for Preservative	[56]
19.	Method of Re-covering Baren	[64]
20.	Drawing of Brushes	[66]
21.	Manner of Holding the Paper	[70]
22.	Manner of using the Baren	[72]

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COLLOTYPE PLATES

		PAGE
1.	Meadowsweet. Reproduction of a Wood-block Print by the Author	[Frontispiece]
2.	Key-block of a Print Drawn and Cut by the Author	[5]
3.	The Baren, or Printing Pad	[12]
4.	Colour-block of a Print of which the Key-block is shown at p. [5]	[23]
5.	Impression (nearly actual size) or a portion of a Japanese Wood Block showing
	great Variety in the Character of the Lines and Spots suggesting Form	[26]
6.	Reproduction of an Impression (reduced) of the Key-block of a Japanese Print
	showing admirable Variety in the Means used to suggest Form	[33]
7.	Portion of Detail from a Japanese Wood Block	[48]

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