#movable type

[pratchettquotes]

"But I'd always understood, sir, that Unseen University was against the use of movable type?"

"Oh, I think it's time to embrace the exciting challenges presented to us by the Century of the Fruitbat," said the Bursar.

"We...that's the one we're just about to leave, sir."

"Then it's high time we embraced them, don't you think?"

"Good point, sir."

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

[conservethis]

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[rhianna]

It is to be borne in mind (and I speak here for the non-technical reader) that, as indicated in the above reference, the distinction and important part of the invention of Gutenberg was, not the production of a press for the multiplication of impressions, but the use of movable type and the preparation of the form from which the impressions were struck off. The art of printing from blocks, since classified as xylographic printing, had been practised in certain quarters of Europe for fifty years or more before the time of Gutenberg, and if Europe had had communication with China, xylography might have been introduced four or five centuries earlier.

[orwellsunderpants]

Video shows a man painstakingly making Chinese movable type. He creates small blocks with the characters on them out of clay, then puts the characters into trays to create the text he wants to print. He inks the trays and presses sheets of paper onto them to create the pages. The last step is to trim the pages and bind them into books with blue paper covers. Sound is gentle instrumental music and the sounds the man makes as he does his work.

[amatsuki]

日星鑄字行 Rixing Type Foundry

[bryophytefanclub]

Þis is thorn: þ. It makes the 'th' sound. Let's bring back þ. Þank you.

Also :Þ is an adorable emoticon. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[waywordsstudio]

Review: "Observations on the Mystery of Print" by Hendrik Willem van Loon -

Van Loon succeeds in not only offering a concise history of ancient printing and invention, but usurping most of our mythology around Joann Gutenberg. An illuminating short read from 1937 that openly declares that it is not anti-German.

[gremlinsinthegarden]

Aziraphale has an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible and the Diamond Sutra.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

movable type printing for paper books around 1040 AD by chinese artist 山白shanbai

[fisheito]

"Eiden and his companions accidentally run their carriage into two yokai wearing "maid costumes". To take responsibility and make amends, they set off to check out a maid café located in the forest—"

Girl that's just kuya and yakumo on their way back from the island

Wait ,no. Forest...

Girl that's just kuya and garu out for a walk

[0xeyedaisy]

I enjoy the new mannequin-romancing direction you're going with your blog and I agree, they're very smoochable

II've always liked mannequins tbh, I've just never talked about it, till now! They're neat, and I'm glad that you see my vision <3

[ihavenoideahowtodream]

I tried to convince the lady at the book printing press festival let me print, "Ronald Reagan's grave is a gender neutral bathroom" on the movable type printer. She said no unfortunately due to the festival she couldn't change it.

I complained about it to the sewing circle I found at the library and the librarian in charge said they have a movable type press in the basement I might be able to use.

I will be bringing my cross stitch to the library next meeting day.

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

child me would never have believed it but after more than 25 years, my "garuru leg" has finally found its missing body, in a manner of speaking!

I had this action figure when I was young and it was one of my favourites, but I somehow lost all but the front left leg...... I kept it around in a jewellery box all this time as a jokey noncommittal "haha someday I'll find the rest of him" thing, and the few times I had looked on Ebay for the figure it was always too expensive being pretty old and mostly coming from overseas, so I figured it would never actually happen-- but I was looking again last month and I found one bundled with two other figurines for verrrry cheap (relatively speaking; it was $5 USD for the figures which would have been an absolute steal if I were from the US... overseas shipping was actually another $35 lol)

AND even more serendipitously, it was missing the exact same leg as the one I still have!! the figures just arrived and I can say without a doubt my garuru leg is finally back home, even if it's definitely not the exact same figure as the one I lost (funny how every one of these is always missing the wings and/or shoulder cannons though)! he's a wonderful AUS/USA chimera and I've had him for an hour but I love him just as much as the one I had as a child haha-- he can even still do the snappy thing where you push the tail down and the mouth opens which I used to love so much... asdffff what a great thing to come home to after a long and busy night at work,,,,,, ,,

I uh, don't fancy my odds of finding another listing out there of "just two wings and one shoulder cannon from a 1999 Bandai Digimon MetalGarurumon Posable 2" Biting Action Figure" soooo I think my search is as good as complete haha...... :')

[rosemarytraitor]

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