A wide crop of an etched print washed with watercolour — fine ink lines over pale teal, lilac, and orange, with a crescent moon and floating circular forms.

Guides

Techniques

How limited edition prints are actually made — relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprint, explained one process at a time.

Lithography

Lithography

What a lithograph is, how it's made, and how to tell an original from a reproduction — a collector's guide from Senefelder to today.

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Screen Printing

Screen Printing

Where the screen print came from, how it's made, and what separates an original worth collecting from a reproduction.

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Woodcut

Woodcut

Woodcut is the oldest of the printmaking techniques — a collector's guide to the relief process, the European and Japanese traditions, and how to read a woodblock print.

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