Brass rubbing

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Brass rubbing was originally a largely British mania for reproducing onto paper Monumental brasses -- commemorative brass plaques found in churches, usually originally on the floor, from between the 13th and 16th centuries. The concept of recording textures of things is more generally called making a rubbing. What distinguishes rubbings from frottage is that rubbings are meant to reproduce the form of something being transferred, whereas frottage just desires to use rubbing to grab a random texture.

Brass rubbings are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a brass and rubbing the paper with graphite, wax, or chalk.

[edit] References

• Monumental Brasses as Art and History ed. Jerome Bertram, published by Alan Sutton.

[edit] External links

• Monumental Brass Society
• History.uk.com's guide to brass rubbing