 It was soon used for printing designs on fabrics, and later for printing texts.Woodblock printing, invented by about the 8th century during the Tang Dynasty, worked as follows.First, the neat hand-copied script was stuck on a relatively thick and smooth board, with the front of the paper, which was so thin that it was nearly transparent, sticking to the board, and characters showing in reverse, but distinctly, so that every stroke could be easily recognized.