Prints bookplate - shoe / Zhang Lingxiang

What is a bookplate? In the era of books or rare items, the Western bibliophiles to mark books they own, often commissioned by craftsmen or artists make exclusive personal bookplate. "EX-LIBRIS" bookplate on words, is Latin for "My collection" means. In modern times, the artist of the bookplate as a creative form, in addition to the identity of those books marked practical use, but also adds more artists ingenuity. What is wood woodcut mouth? Wood port board (Wood Engraving) refers to the use of trees cross section as a version kinds of plate, usually the harder wood such as: cherry wood, piles, pomegranate ... etc. So using either engraved or embossed way plate, are able to carved out a very detailed lines and visual effects, is the delicacy of performance results are very good and a technique, because of its meticulous and printing durability, Europe early field guide book illustration is often used wooden mouth woodcut illustrations printed pages. Works News - Artist: Zhang Lingxiang Size: 9x9cm (forum) Edition species: Toppan (wood mouth woodcut) Year: 2015 Note on work "X2" for the wood port board (Wood Engraving) techniques No. Yan Xuan Paper printed after laminating in version Paper Limited 60, edition of the random shipment. Origin / manufacturing methods Taiwan / handmade