The lubok is the Russian popular woodcut — cheap, vivid folk broadsheets hawked at fairs from the 17th century on. A black block-printed outline was struck on coarse rag paper, then washed by hand with tempera thinned to a watercolor, so the color happily overruns the line. Each sheet marries a bold narrative scene to looping Cyrillic captions in a joyful, deliberately unrefined hand. Restricted to three or four colors, it is folk storytelling made print: naive figures, beasts and ornament, framed in caption banners and never quite registered.