Brass
Rubbing
Brass rubbing was originally a British mania for
reproducing brasses -- commemorative embossed brass reliefs found
in church memorials from the 14th and 15th centuries -- onto paper.
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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