# @funlabs.io on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgMynyMe2g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66513771-funlabsio-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-11-03T15:03:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** funlabspace (@funlabs.io) — https://gondola.cc/funlabs.io

## Caption

Accounts from poems by Abu Dulaf and Safi ad-Din al-Hilli suggest peddlers printed amulets from wooden blocks and cast tin plates to sell to naive buyers who thought they were getting handwritten charms.
If the tarsh described by poets were indeed printblocks, the verses would serve to date medieval Arabic printing.

The locus of printing technology among the Banu Sasan possibly explains a lack of broader influences and eventual disappearance of medieval printing.
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#art #architecture #print #woodblock #design #medieval #history #trade #islamicart #traderoutes #culture #studio #research #charette #archives #woodblockprint #silkroad

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history, print, research, trade, design, culture, silkroad, islamicart, art, woodblock, traderoutes, woodblockprint, medieval, charette, architecture, archives, studio

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