Talk:Woodblock printing on textiles

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This article was extracted and restructured from Textile printing. It needs a lot of cleanup to remove Edwardianism from the EB 1911 text. - PKM (talk) 04:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Could be a B-class if only it had references. Durova^Charge! 06:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

No, because it is a very incomplete & I think often inaccurate (with present knowledge) account. AS EB it wouldn't need other refs; what it needs is redoing. It hardly mentions China and India, who are probably the oldest cultures to practice it, and, in the case of India, the main exporter for centuries, and the main country still to use the technique. The technique section is probably rather too specfic. Many/most of the historical statements are a long way from current scholarly understanding. I knocked it back to a start for these reasons. There is more accurate material on some aspects at woodblock printing , old master print and somewhere there is I think a longish old article on Indian exports to Europe. I come at it from the woodblock printing angle, not the textile one, as it were. Johnbod (talk) 12:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Reverting my genuine edits

hi, i have made some genuine edits in this article but a user called @Pinkbeast: is making vandalism and vandalizing all my edits here and else where. This article lacks references, i have added references to show that earliest historical records of woodblock printing has been from india, im adding one more source to back this fact

the discovery of a woodblock printed piece of silk in China dating back almost two thousand years suggests that textile printing preceded paper printing. Yet, were the Chinese first to practice cloth printing? India also has a rich history of textile production that was greatly admired by neighboring countries. As early as 327 BCE, Alexander the Great was said to have praised the “beautiful printed cottons” from India. Records also indicate that Indian textiles were imported into China via the silk routes

Link: http://www.beprimitive.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=139115. india had been wrongly omitted from the origin and there are unsourced claims of assyria, china and egypt to have been origins of woodblock printing. it is evident in this article that this technology went to china from india.

Early History of Asian Textiles The Asian continent has the longest tradition of decorating fabrics using textile printing methods. For instance, in 327 B.C. when Alexander the Great invaded India, colorful, printed textiles were found. These textiles were typically printed with a carved structure, such as a wood block or rubber stamp, was adhered dye to the fabric. The process for this kind of textile decoration or design was called relief or block printing.

Link: https://study.com/academy/lesson/textile-printing-history-techniques.html. this article clearly mentions india as the forebearer of woodblock printing and not assyria, i think all the unsourced information needs to be either backed by references, or omitted for false claims.

Previous unsigned comment added by Rameezraja001 (talk) circa 0800 3 June 2018.

Note that bandying around accusations of vandalism is unwise. Your references show no such thing; they show that there was woodblock printing on textiles in India in 327 BC, not that that was first. I've moved the material back to the correct section, that dealing with the ancient world, which strongly suggests itself that the technique may have been used in Egypt in 1320 BC, almost a millenium before Alexander.

Ping Ponyo, LouisAragon, and Wario-Man who are already aware of this user's problematic editing on Paisley (design) Pinkbeast (talk) 03:16, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

suggesting is something, backing up with credible sources is another thing.

unsigned comment added by Rameezraja001 c. 1300 4 June 2018.