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Linocut is a way of using linoleum to create prints. Along with woodcut, it belongs to relief techniques, where protruding parts of the plate are to leave marks on the paper. Although linoleum itself was invented as a floor covering in the 1860s, the linoleum technique was first tried out sometime between 1905 and 1913 by the artists of the Die Brücke group in Germany; their wallpaper was…