It took Zhang about half a month to finish this wood-block, featuring patterns of dancing lions. [Photo/VCG] Zhang Liansheng, a 72-year-old man from the Kaifeng city of Henan province, is a folk ...

Wooden printing blocks, traditionally used for textile printing, are now being creatively repurposed in various crafts and ...

Researchers at New York’s Columbia University have unveiled a method of vibrantly replicating the external and internal structure of materials such as wood using a 3D printer and specialist scanning ...

Did you know one of your favourite toys as a child had a history worth hundreds of years? Building blocks have always played an important part in education, childhood development, and creative play ...

Engineers at Columbia University have 3D-printed a block of "digital wood", using a voxel technique that enables the creation of objects with rich internal textures. The resin block is modelled on an ...