Makeworks is a living catalog of techniques used to put ink, pigment, light or pressure onto paper. It spans nineteen-hundred years of practice—from the carved cherry blocks of Tang-era China to the soy-based Risographs and UV inkjets of the present.
The aim is reference, not instruction: every entry sketches the history, the working process, the materials needed, and the practical strengths and limitations.
Categories follow the traditional taxonomy of printmaking—relief, intaglio, planographic, stencil and photographic—plus modern digital and the wider field of alternative processes.
Suggestions, corrections, missing methods?
Open a thread—this atlas grows with its readers.