wood block

Bend the lower tube at right angles and insert it in a wood block, previously slotted with a saw to make a snug fit.

But the wood-block cannot give the depth of darkness, the method makes a convention of colour.

A wood-block print will not tell well amid a wilderness of bric-à-brac or on a gaudy wall-paper.

This has been the expressed opinion of many who have undertaken a course of wood-block printing for this object alone.

The actual value of wood-block prints for use as decoration is a matter of personal taste and experience.