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Woman's Future I cut the original linoleum block for this image as a demonstration for my Dover Middle School, NH students to show them what they could do. Over 350 students in grades 5-8 followed my lead and created their own pieces of art. The single print made from that original linoleum block exists but the block itself was lost over the intervening decades. Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of a woodcut, in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel, or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed. The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians used woodcuts for impressing designs into bricks and the Romans for stamping letters and symbols. The Chinese used wood blocks for stamping patterns on textiles and for illustrating books. Woodcuts appeared in Europe at the beginning of the 15th Century, when they were used to make religious pictures for distribution to pilgrims, on playing cards and simple prints, and for the block books that preceded printing. The single linocut from the original linoleum block, presented in a 1" wide black wood frame (double matted black on red with an outer dimension of 11" x 14"), is available for $225.00. Limited edition prints of the original linocut and note cards are also available. Click here for availability and price.