Inside the world’s largest traditional Tibetan printing press

Dec 04, 2018

The world’s largest traditional Tibetan printing press is located in Sichuan province. Nearly destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, it was allowed to resume operations in 1979 and now produces more than 2,500 prints a day using paper and ink made from plants.

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Credit

Written by: Clarissa Wei

Produced, Shot, and Edited by: Nathaniel Brown

Animations by: Ray Ngan

Mastered by: Victor Peña