Printmaking

A round, smooth pad used to press paper against an inked wood or linoleum block.

• Baren

• Brayer

• Burin

• Gouge

A metal or wooden plate with a raised edge on each end to hold a woodcut or linocut in place while cutting.

• Block

• Brayer

• Bench Hook

• Intaglio

A piece of thick, flat material, with a design on its surface, used to print repeated impressions of that design.

• Brayer

• Block

• Burin

• Lithograph

A small roller used to spread printing ink evenly on a surface before printing.

• Intaglio

• Lithograph

• Brayer

• Baren

A technique for gluing smaller pieces of paper onto a print while printing it. Usually thing papers are attached to a heavier printing paper with this method.

• Intaglio

• Monoprint

• Collagraph

• Chine Colle

A print made from an image built up with glue and other collage-type materials.

• Chine Colle

• Collagraph

• Monoprint

• Etching

A set of identical prints that are numbered and signed.

• Proofs

• Monoprint

• Chine Colle

• Edition

A form of intaglio printing in which lines are incised into a metal plate with a carving tool called a burin.

• Collagraph

• Lithograph

• Engraving

• Monoprint

In relief printing, a tool for cutting and clearing areas from a block of wood or linoleum.

• Gouge

• Brayer

• Burin

• Etching

The opposite of relief printing, the printing is done from the ink below the surface of the plate. The ink is retained by the gouges.

• Intaglio

• Lithograph

• Collagraph

• Linocut