Japanese woodblock printing

At the print studio the other day Wuon Gean and I looked through all her printing equipment together. All the pieces are beautiful and simple, carefully considered, functional and wonderfully worn.
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The gentle curve of this brush
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The transparency of the construction.
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Wuon Gean's handwriting on the brushes (the thinnest one is my favourite)
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Vibrant inks looking like lacquer.
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Sharpening stones with their wounds.
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A handsome water brush.
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Perfectly stained plastic palette.
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The Baren - for rubbing the image from the block to paper.
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And the most beautiful selection of printing colours.
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Or maybe this is the most beautiful selection, I can't choose.
There you go. It makes me feel quite calm to look at it all. I love that Japanese woodblock printing doesn't require lots of equipment, that you could take everything with you in a box. Unfortunately Wuon Gean isn't teaching it for the rest of this year but I think I will sign up for the next course (I'll let you know when it's on too).

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