Definition of "woodblocks" [woodblocks]

• Plural form of woodblock. (noun)

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• "Mezzotint techniques — a specialty of Le Blon — were especially appropriate for reproductions, as they offered subtleties of shading and texture that gave the image a depth not found in woodblocks or in other copperplate printing techniques. 14"
• "It also has an extensive classics and modern classics section and stocks books from smaller presses, such as Little Toller, Persephone, Eland and Everyman's Library, as well as a limited-run of handmade books by the Fleece Press, the one-man operation of Simon Lawrence, whose family have made woodblocks for wood engravers since 1859."
• "Exploiting this irony, Mr. Xu's 15-foot-long "Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll" is composed of photocopied elements — a rocky outcrop here, scholars in a grove there — which he then had carved into woodblocks."