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Brass rubbings are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a brass and rubbing the paper with [[graphite]], [[wax]], or [[chalk]]. |
Brass rubbings are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a brass and rubbing the paper with [[graphite]], [[wax]], or [[chalk]]. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 02:45, 14 November 2008
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.
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References
- Monumental Brasses as Art and History ed. Jerome Bertram, published by Alan Sutton.
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