These cards, slightly larger than today ’ s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.

Common types of matrices include: plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching ; stone, used for lithography ; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric plates for screen-printing.

* Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, wood engraving ( 1931 )

* Inside St. Peter's, wood engraving ( 1935 )

* Doric Columns, wood engraving ( 1945 )

* Three Spheres I, wood engraving ( 1945 )

* Another World also known as Other World, wood engraving and woodcut ( 1947 )

* Stars, wood engraving ( 1948 )

* Double Planetoid, wood engraving ( 1949 )

Betting on the Favorite, an 1870 wood engraving | engraving

Dante speaks to Pope Nicholas III, committed to the Hell | Inferno for his simony, in Gustave Doré's wood engraving, 1861.

The " Brains " Boss Tweed depicted by Thomas Nast in a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871

One of the wood engraving | wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré.

Common types of matrices include: metal plates, usually copper or zinc, or polymer plates for engraving or etching ; stone, aluminum, or polymer for lithography ; blocks of wood for woodcuts and wood engravings ; and linoleum for linocuts.

Relief techniques include: woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known, wood engraving, linocut and metalcut ;

Robert Fludd's 1618 " water screw " perpetual motion machine from a 1660 wood engraving.

Jones joined the guild and learned wood and copper engraving as well as experimenting with wood carving.

He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.

Betting on the Favorite, an 1870 wood engraving | engraving

Lilac wood has traditionally been used for engraving, musical instruments, knife handles etc.

Curious as to what made it work, he built a crude model of it in wood, and filed a piece of steel until he succeeded in making a metal pickup for the thread, enabling the crude machine to take stitches.

The chines go in the same way except that they are made of two pieces of two-inch wood for strength and easier bending.

and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.

I even ferreted out the materials from which shields were made -- linden wood covered with leather -- so I'd get the light reflections accurate.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

* Trembita, an Ukrainian alpine horn made of wood.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

In particular, the tiles have been made from wood, plastic, and cardboard in various editions of the game.

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

Entry-level models, especially those made in East Asia, often use nato wood, which is again tonally similar to mahogany but is cheap to acquire.

It is the largest city in the Abadeh-Eghlid district, which is famed for its carved wood-work, made of the wood of pear and box trees.

Masks were generally carved from wood and were decorated with paints made from berries or other earthly products.

The vertical force on the bridge becomes a shear and flexural load on the beam which is transferred down its length to the substructures on either side They are typically made of steel, concrete or wood.

Bead looms vary in size and are typically made of wood or metal.

Earlier still, racquets were made of wood.

The French creation, made of iron and wood, developed into the " penny-farthing " ( historically known as an " ordinary bicycle ", a retronym, since there was then no other kind ).

Hemp, cotton, wood, paper, linen, vegetable oils, some types of rope, and rubber are examples of materials made from plants.

They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

The stick should be made of an approved material such as wood or another similar material and it should not contain any metals or sharp parts which can hurt the surrounding players.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

Thus one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the alphorn, the cornett, the serpent and the didgeridoo, while some woodwind instruments are made of brass, like the saxophone.