Case : 372.Techniques in printing carts include: Xylography, in which the subject is printed from a design engraved on a block of wood. Wood block printing was common in Europe by the 1300's. Copper-plate printing, in which the subject is printed from an etching or engraving below the surface of a plate of steel or of copper. Started being used in Europe as early as the 1430's until 18th century. Lithography, in which the subject is printed from a transferred engraving on the surface of a prepared engraved blockstone. It was invented in 1796 and was used in printing cards until 1930. The stenciling has been used as a historic coloring technique on all kinds of materials, in Europe, from about 1450. This was especially the case with playing-cards, which continued to be colored by stencil long after most other subjects for prints were left in black and white, until 19th century. The luxury hand-painted packs which illuminated with gold and silver are very rare as the case of Visconti-Sforza decks. Some hand-painting cards manufactories still existed in Asian until 20th century (India, China, Vietnam). Most of decks was created by pasteboard which was manufactured from several sheets of paper glued together. The modern thin cards just appeared very lately from 1960.
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