Sunday September 16, 2007 at 16:49
Woodblock Printing - Dege (via OmMane) “Workers in the Printing House work in pairs to produce traditional Tibetan texts. This is the height of the Dege Printing House’s technology, which hasn’t changed much since 1729, when construction of the press began. There are 100 workers, over 210,000 stored wood blocks, and no mechanization. Even electricity has been avoided, for fear of fire. But the pairs of printers move like well-oiled cogs in a machine, their work in perfect harmony. The printed text appears quickly about one page every four seconds.”
