Did you know that according to Tribeca Printworks, the earliest surviving printmaking print is a woodblock print on silk that originates from the Han dynasty, China(206 B.C.-220 A.D.)? Well I didn’t either but something I do know about is the process of printmaking. There are four main types of printmaking relief, intaglio, lithography, and screen printing and in this story I’ll talk about a variant of relief, lino cut, specifically a 2 color lino reduction print. A 2 Color Lino Reduction Print is when using a linoleum plate and lino cutter to cut out, deep enough, the rest of the plate that is not the design you sketched on the plate. In a 2 color lino reduction print after you cut all the areas that are not your design the you put your ink on a hooking rack and use something called the brayer to be able to apply the ink to your plate to which then you put your plate in a registration hook to be able to out your piece of paper on top of to get your print, after you finish inking your plate you cut out the other part of the design so you can add your black ink on. After this whole, very simplified, process your result is a one of a kind print. If you like learning about things like this, tune in on more of my future works!