Culture and Creative Products
Postcards: manually printed by lead type
Movable type printing was used for almost one hundred years in Taiwan. Because of the development of computer technology, it has waned rapidly since 1980. There is only one type foundry, Rixing Type Foundry, still around as of 2014 in Taiwan. The National Science and Technology Museum has quite a complete collection of early lead type printing equipment and therefore launched the products of postcards manually printed by lead type. One can sense the beauty of Chinese characters from them. The pictures here are two of our collections: lead type racks made of Chinese cypress timber and Chinese regular script matrix from Fenghang Type Foundry.
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