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What is the name for the tool in woodblock printing that applies ink on the paper?

For woodblock printing in the Tang Dynasty in China. I cant seem to be able to find the name.
Thanks!

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  1. amybeader December 16, 2010

    I don’t know what the name of the Chinese tool may have been, but one of the names for inking tools today is a brayer. Is that possibly what you are thinking of?

  2. John Steins December 16, 2010

    Buddhist monks who hand print scriptures from wood blocks use an ink dauber. It’s similar to a wadded up piece of leather that they rock back and forth to pick up ink on a slab and then do the same on the block to charge it with ink.

    Not sure what it’s called though.

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