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Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Asian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Roller Printed Cotton Panel, Made for Central Asian Markets Mid 20th C. Russia
Located in Istanbul, TR
period, supplanting the labor-intensive hand block printing methods of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Category

Mid-20th Century Russian Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Cotton

Mid Century Original Sierra Mountaintops Landscape in Oil on Canvas
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
extensively, taking trips to Yosemite and Carmel with Ansel Adams and John Weston and learning wood block
Category

1960s American Modern Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

chrysanthemum
Located in San Francisco, CA
printing, the blocks were destroyed. Botanical Prints presents a vast array of Evans's work and goes one
Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Linocut

"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
art. The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Questo Silenzio (This Silence) - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
, Florence. Block printing realized by means of Antonio Bocconcelli's press in Imola, on Magnani di Pescia
Category

1970s Contemporary Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Etching

Dachau - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
was for the "Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe" Uffizi, Florence. Block printing realized by
Category

1970s Modern Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Etching

Edgar Dorsey Taylor Original Woodcut Baja Series - “Wind Off the Shore...."
By Edgar Dorsey Taylor
Located in Phoenix, AZ
and painting and wood block printing. Edgar Taylor died in Los Angeles in 1978. His papers are at
Category

1960s Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Paper

Nel Cavo delle Mani - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
. Block printing realized by means of Antonio Bocconcelli 's press in Imola, on "Magnani di Pescia" paper
Category

1970s Contemporary Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Etching

Color Lithograph by Irving Amen, Titled "Violin"
By Irving Amen
Located in Miami, FL
woodcuts, Piazza San Marco #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in
Category

20th Century American Modern Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Paper

1943 Israeli German Expressionist Woodcut Print Vintage Woodblock Bezalel School
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
Category

1940s Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

Kumadori by Makoto Ouchi, Japanese etching 18 of 60 Kabuki contemporary orange
By Makoto Ouchi
Located in Santa Fe, NM
as secretary-general of that association. Ouchi combined etching with the use of paper blocks for
Category

1980s Contemporary Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Etching

Satsuki by Ouchi Makato Japanese etching Kabuki geometric orange white black
By Makoto Ouchi
Located in Santa Fe, NM
with the use of paper blocks for printing the flat color areas. This contrasted with the embossed
Category

1980s Contemporary Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Etching

The Virgin and the Unicorn
By John Buckland-Wright
Located in New York, NY
colors, 1947, the original block and a proof, the proof titled, signed and dated lower margin. Reference
Category

1940s Pre-Raphaelite Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Wood Panel, Woodcut

German Israeli Expressionist "Rooster" Batik Style Painting Print on Silk Fabric
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
Category

20th Century Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Silk, Ink

California Nature Landscape -- Springtime by the River
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens in Japan under Sadao Watanabe. His
Category

1980s American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Cardboard

Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
By Hildegarde Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
her own blocks and hand printing each impression were too great so after seven years she put down her
Category

1960s Abstract Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Watercolor

Mid Century Figurative Portrait of a Boy with Toy Car
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
Adams and John Weston and learning wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens
Category

1960s American Realist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

German Israeli Expressionist Woodcut Print Pencil Signed Street Fight
By Jacob Pins
Located in Surfside, FL
expressionism and traditional Japanese wood block printing. From 1956 to 1977, he taught at Israel's leading art
Category

20th Century Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Woodcut

Vintage Liberty of London Scarf Pillow with Irish Linen Barbie Purple Pin
By Liberty of London
Located in Belfast, Northern Ireland
printing method. Liberty’s block printed scarves on silk were produced in relatively small numbers, this
Category

Late 20th Century English Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Linen, Cotton

Portrait of an Old Man
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
extensively, taking trips to Yosemite and Carmel with Ansel Adams and John Weston and learning wood block
Category

1980s American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

The Old Farm - Landscape with Cow
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
extensively, taking trips to Yosemite and Carmel with Ansel Adams and John Weston and learning wood block
Category

1980s American Impressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peony
Located in San Francisco, CA
screen, a colorful and complicated print may go through twenty printing stages. Next, blocking out the
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Screen

"Inner Space" Abstract Monotype
By Ralph Edward Joosten
Located in Soquel, CA
wood block printing and Japanese brush painting in the Kyoto Gardens in Japan. His photographs are
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Printing Blocks

Materials

Monotype

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Vintage Printing Blocks For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of vintage printing blocks for sale on 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, metal and iron, all vintage printing blocks available were constructed with great care. Vintage printing blocks have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Mid-Century Modern vintage printing blocks are consistently popular styles. Many vintage printing blocks are appealing in their simplicity, but Rajhastani produced popular vintage printing blocks that are worth a look.

How Much are Vintage Printing Blocks?

Vintage printing blocks can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $228, while the lowest priced sells for $25 and the highest can go for as much as $1,600.
Questions About Vintage Printing Blocks
  • 1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023
    The oldest known example of block printing is the Diamond Sutra. Produced around 886 CE, the scroll is a Buddhist religious text and was discovered in Dunhuang, China. Anthropologists believe that the Chinese developed the art of block printing 4,000 years ago, but so far, none of the earlier works have been discovered. On 1stDibs, find a variety of block prints from some of the world's top galleries.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMay 5, 2023
    A printing block is sometimes called a printmaking block, a wood block or a block. You can also refer to one simply as a printing block. Artists carve printmaking blocks with designs, apply ink and then press them against a surface to produce artwork. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of block prints from some of the world's top galleries.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Indian block printing is an art form that originated in India during ancient times. It involves carving a block of teak wood with an intricate pattern and then using it to press ink onto fabric like silk or cotton. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Indian block printed apparel and art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Rajasthan is the Indian state that is most famous for block printing, though it is also a popular dyeing method in a variety of other states. Rajasthan features various cities known for different techniques of this textile printing method. On 1stDibs, find a range of authentic Indian block printed textiles.