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                                                HISTORY OF BLOCK PRINTING   Block printing is thought to have had its origin in china over 4,000 years ago, before disseminating throughout Asia and the world. The earliest record of block printing, though, isn’t on fabric but on a book known as the diamond sutra, which was printed 300 years before the Gutenberg bible. BLOCK PRINTING is a technique for printing text, images, or patterns used widely throughout east Asia and originating in china in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. Each page or image is created by carving a wooden block to leave only some areas and lines on the original level it is these that are inked and show in the print, in a relief printing process . Carving the block is skilled and laborious work, but a large number of impressions can then be printed. Diam...