{"id":4744,"date":"2018-09-17T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:37:39","slug":"unique-wall-art-idea-japanese-woodblock-prints-on-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/unique-wall-art-idea-japanese-woodblock-prints-on-bamboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Wall Art Idea: Japanese Woodblock Prints On Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first post in what will be a series of unique wall art ideas featuring our products.\u00a0 Today, we discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/japanese-woodblock-prints\/\">Japanese woodblock prints<\/a> which date back hundreds of years when craftsmen spent painstaking hours chiseling away at a woodblock to create a stamp that would imprint beautifully detailed expressions of Japanese life.\u00a0The golden era for Japanese woodblock prints\u00a0called the Edo period, lasted from\u00a0 1603 &#8211; 1868 but it wasn&#8217;t until the\u00a01760&#8217;s that a wider array of colors were used.\u00a0 Everything from seductive scenes to sumo wrestling to dramatic landscapes were intricately\u00a0created to reflect the time of peace and prosperity in Japan.\u00a0 To this day, the skill and patience required to produce these incredible prints haven&#8217;t come close to being replicated which is one reason why original prints from this period can be sold for many thousands of dollars (although most are a few hundred).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t sell original Japanese woodblock prints here at Bumblejax, but what we can do is use scans that the Library of Congress provides to create digital reproductions (also referred to as giclee) and mount those prints on one of our unique materials.\u00a0 While we have many options to choose from such as acrylic, birch, raw aluminum and canvas, we believe the bamboo paired with the traditional woodblock prints offer a perfect match.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an example of what this would look like..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/japanese-woodblock-print-annotate-final.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Woodblock Print On Bamboo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cool stuff eh?\u00a0 What you can do is search the Library of Congress which has 2500+ images, let us know what image you love and we&#8217;ll clean it up for you and send you a digital proof.\u00a0 We can produce these fairly large up to around 40&#215;30&#8243; but can discuss the size and cost once you have your image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/japanese-woodblock-prints\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">For more details on the Japanese woodblock print on bamboo wall art idea and instructions on ordering please have a look here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first post in what will be a series of unique wall art ideas featuring our products.\u00a0 Today, we discuss Japanese woodblock prints which date back hundreds of years when craftsmen spent painstaking hours chiseling away at a woodblock to create a stamp that would imprint beautifully detailed expressions of Japanese life.\u00a0The golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumblejax.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}