Before modern printing machines, Chinese craftsmen used an ingenious technique to print entire pages using individual clay characters!
Watch how each character is carefully carved into a small clay block, fired in a kiln to make it hard, and arranged in the correct order to form words and sentences.
The characters are then coated with ink and pressed onto paper using a traditional printing technique.
This is ancient Chinese clay movable-type printing — an incredible invention that helped transform the history of printing! 📜
