Describe the woodblock printing.
Woodblock printing was the earliest kind of print technology. It was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand-writing. From AD 594 onwards, under this system, books in China were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface of woodblocks. As both sides of the thin, porous sheet could not be printed, the traditional Chinese ‘accordion book’ was folded and stitched at the side. Superbly skilled craftsmen could duplicate with remarkable accuracy the beauty of calligraphy.
