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From Block to Type: Two Ways to Make a Page

From Block to Type: Two Ways to Make a Page

Exhibition

From Block to Type: Two Ways to Make a Page

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine27 October 2025 — 26 December 2025Музей книги і друкарства України

A woodcut is carved as a whole page and dies with it; a letter is cast separately and lives on. About why the second idea changed the world.

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Movable Type as an Idea, Not a Device

The main invention was not the machine but the ability to take a page apart.

On the Back of the Block: An Invoice for the Work

The cutter noted the sum on the wood itself, on the reverse.

The Block Is Shown Mirrored Against Its Print

The cutter worked in reverse, and the exhibition does not hide it.

A Block That Printed for Twenty Years

The wear at the edges shows how many times it went under the press.

From Block to Type: Two Technologies Side by Side

A woodcut dies with its page; a letter lives on.

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