A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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interpretative woodcut
In French terminology a distinction is made between bois d'interprétation and bois de trait. Bois d'interprétation, which may be called "interpretative woodcut" in English, is used to describe woodcuts that copy brush work drawings as opposed to woodcuts copying line drawings. The tones of a brush drawing must be "translated" in woodcutting and therefore there is necessarily an element of interpretation, which is not the case when making a woodcut based on a line drawing (bois de trait)
[wood, tone]
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