Woodcut | Technique, History, Artists, Facts | Britannica woodcut, technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood’s grain It is one of the oldest methods of making prints from a relief surface, having been used in China to decorate textiles since the 5th century ce In Europe, printing from wood blocks on textiles was known from the early 14th century, but it had little development until paper
Woodcut - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Woodcut The oldest form of printmaking, woodcut is a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block The raised areas that remain after the block has been cut are inked and printed, while the recessed areas that are cut away do not retain ink, and will remain blank in the final print