Crossword-Solution: XYLOGRAPHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Xylography | n. | The art of engraving on wood. |
| Xylography | n. | The art of making prints from the natural grain of wood. |
| Xylography | n. | A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “XYLOGRAPHY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PRIMITIVE engraving on wood | 1 answer |
| WOOD-engraving | 1 answer |
| Wood-engraving art | 1 answer |
| the art of making engravings on wood, esp for printing | 1 answer |
| printing | 51 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with XYLOGRAPHY (5)
Etym: [Photo- + xylography.] Defn: The process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.
Etym: [Xylo- + -graph.] Defn: An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.
Some early fifteenth century documents discovered at Avignon make unmistakable references to printing, and not to xylography, and from them we learn that Procopius Waldfoghel, a silver-smith of Prague, was engaged in printing at Avignon in 1444, and had undertaken to cut a set of Hebrew types for a Jew whom he had previously instructed in the art of printing.
Van Der Linde arrives in his chapter on “The Spread of Typography in the Netherlands,” is as follows:-- “The harvest of history on the field of typography concerning Haarlem may be scanty; it does not yield _anything_, as far as xylography goes.
Ambroise-Firmin Didot, “when the art of making paper--that art familiar to the Chinese from the beginning of our era--spread in Europe and became generally known, that the reproduction, by pressing, of texts, figures, playing-cards, &c., first by the tabular process, called _xylography_ (block-printing), then with movable types, became easy, and was consequently to appear simultaneously in different places.” [Illustration: Fig.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1978).