Turner suggests heading to Anthropologie for great alphabet letter hooks made out of old print blocks or to Graham and Green for their bestselling deer horn hooks.
This project is best made the day before using the string print blocks.
There is evidence of printing being carried out in India during the 4th century bce, and a printing block dated at about 300 ce has been unearthed in the burial grounds of Akhmīn in Upper Egypt.
To make his woodcuts, Munch invented a simplified process of jigsawing each compositional element of the printing block, inking each in the desired color, then fitting them back together and running the reconfigured puzzle through the press just once.
A final key finding is that colorants were often combined, either through mixture in a bowl or on the printing block, or by two-step overprinting.
Not only was it hard work, but the quality of the printing block was crucial.
As printing was done by hand, printers were able to achieve effects impractical with machines, such as the blending or gradation of colours on the printing block.
It requires an artist to draw or transfer an image to a printing block; the areas not to be printed (the white areas) are cut away, leaving raised areas to which ink is applied to make prints.
