hand-blockv.
/ˈhandblɒk/, U.S. /ˈhændˌblɑk/ transitive. To print (an image, pattern, colour, etc.) on to fabric or paper by means of a hand block; (also) to print (fabric, paper) in this way.Used intransitively in quot. 1858.
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1858 Odd Fellows' Mag. July 415 You may hand-block; print by the Perrotine..or..from flat plates of copper.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 56/2 The draperies are striking. An unusual design of papaya in brown and purple eggplant is hand-blocked on oyster-white velvet.
1967 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 115 96 The Blockroom, where the colours are hand-blocked on to the woven designs.
1995 House Beautiful Nov. 60/1 Men were hand-blocking wax patterns with blocks called caps.
2004 Business Insurance (Nexis) 9 Aug. 10 That wallpaper was handblocked in France 80-some years ago.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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