Chibi Heroes woodblock print production
This video shows the process of making a pair of the Chibi Heroes woodblock prints - from design stage right through to the final trip to the Post Office for delivery.
Details:
- a pair of designs carved and printed together.
- blocks are Japanese 'yamazakura' (mountain cherry).
- paper is Echizen Hosho washi, by Ichibei Iwano (Living National Treasure).
- number of blocks: key block + 3 colour blocks (7 sides in all)
- number of printing impressions: nine
- Designs: Jed Henry
- Carving: David Bull
- Printing: in this video, all by Dave. For the final production run, it is the staff of Mokuhankan, Dave's publishing workshop
Music credit: 'Drops of H2O' by djlang59, who can be found on ccmixter.org at:
http://ccmixter.org/files/djlang59/37792
A new pair of Chibi Heroes prints is published every month. For details, please see the website at: http://mokuhankan.com/heroes/chibi/index.html
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