Day 3 of #FolktaleWeek2025 prompt is rain. My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper, 11” x 14”.

There are variations of the folktale across Asia, but the story tells of lovers, 🧵

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Working on a print for a folktale well-known across Asia with different names and versions for #folktaleweek2025 #FolktaleWeekRain. This is the story of the magpie bridge which once a year can reunite the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by the great river which is the Milky Way.

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