How was it made? Renaissance Playing Card | Woodcut Printing | V&A
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Originating in China in around the 9th century, card games arrived in Europe in the early 14th century. They were initially the preserve of the rich because each card was hand-painted and therefore expensive to buy. However, the advent of woodblock printing led to a system of relatively cheap mass production, in which cards could be printed in sheets from a single wood block. As a result, card playing became popular at all social levels and by both men and women.
In this film printmaker and artist Anne Desmet recreates an early-Renaissance sheet of playing cards from our collection, originally made between 1490 - 1500. Using woodcutting and stencilling techniques, which seem labour intensive by today’s standards, this printing system would have revolutionised card playing by opening the market to a much wider audience.
Process:
Early-Renaissance playing cards: 00:00
Materials: 00:25
Transferring the design: 00:42
Carving the wood: 01:24
Preparing the ink and using the pounce: 01:46
Pressing the ink: 02:06
Applying colour: 02:44
Find out more about the object: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7...
Discover more in our Renaissance collection: www.vam.ac.uk/collections/ren...
Music credits:
Renaissance by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Artist: audionautix.com/
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They look colourful and fun. Makes me want to draw and colour again.
Beautiful music
Excellent video, extremely informative and I loved seeing the stages of the whole process and the tools!! Although I am disappointed (a bit) that you didn’t show your reproductions at the end!!
Amazing process - art and production in one. Well done short film and truly fascinated subject.
This is just great!
I want a pack of them
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@vamuseum what a beautiful process and creation! Thank you for putting this video together. I was wondering how the stencil is made? Is it from paper? Would love to see a video of how stencils were made in those days for this kind of printing
How would the sheet be stiffened?
The paper they used in the video looked too transparent for cards. I wonder too.
I wonder if it was adhered to thicker card with a natural glue.
Exactly! Making the images was just normal woodblock printing, but how about making the actual cards that can endure being handled and shuffled?
Probably by gluing several sheets of paper together to make paste board.
Or maybe using gum to stiffen the paper?
Wow
I Love the music too. What is the tune called?
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Anyone else get The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom vibes from the music?
Did they use the Guttenberg Press?
The 'Guttenberg Press' is specifically the use of movable type combined with a generic Screw Press.
This is just a Screw Press. Although this 'is' the century that the Guttenberg Press was created.
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