Woodblock printing

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Woodblock printing - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Woodblock printing - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Papermaking Stamp seal Writing (China)

Required Knowledge

  • Printing

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Woodblock printing:

Movable type Chintz

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Chintz Papermaking Movable type Writing (China) Stamp seal

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