Integrating painting, engraving and printing, woodblock printing originates from more than 1,200 years ago in China and is regarded as the world's earliest form of printing. It reached Europe around ...

“Printing on playing cards made it as cheap as possible.” “I bought 100 old nudie cards that I wanted to draw from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s,” says Huff of his eBay search for subjects.

How China’s last surviving woodblock-print artists are keeping an ancient art alive Once ubiquitous across the Middle Kingdom, woodblock printing was nearly lost in the tumult of 20th-century China ...