Linoleum
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Linoleum is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil, pine resin, ground cork dust, sawdust, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a hessian or can
Linoleum from around 1950
Application of liquid linoleum.
Early linoleum at Tyntesfield
Cross section view show linoleum's pigmentation evenly distributed throughout the slab.
Linocut
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Linocut, also known as lino print, lino printing or linoleum art, is a printmaking technique, a variant of relief printing in which a sheet of linoleum is used for a relief surface. A design is cut in
Linoleum
…product "Corticine". Early in the twentieth century, a group of Dresden artists used easy-to-cut linoleum instead of wood for printmaking, creating the linocut printmaking technique – similar to woodcuts. Prominent artists who created linocut prints included Picasso and Henri Matisse. 21st-century linocut…
The Mask by Frank Weitzel, 1930
Using a handheld gouger to cut a design into linoleum for a linocut print
Linocut printing; using a design cut into linoleum to make a print on paper
Wet Afternoon, linocut in four color blocks by Ethel Spowers of the Grosvenor School group, 1930.