Making Paper and Fabric Rubbings - Softcover

Firestein, Cecily Barth

 
9781579902322: Making Paper and Fabric Rubbings

Synopsis

This delightful book explores the popular craft of brass rubbing in a modern style and context. Rubbing offers immediate gratification and can produce designs suitable for framing, painting and stitching. The author explains the tools and materials required and then demonstrates the basic methods for making dry and wet rubbings. How-to photographs and detailed instructions show you how to rub on different types of paper and fabric. * History of rubbing * Chines & Japanese origins * Ecclesiastical origins * Travel & rubbing * * Lifting rubbings with children * Materials * Methods * Storing your work * * Displaying your work * Using rubbings on gift items and household accessories *

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

New York, NY

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781579901042: Making Paper and Fabric Rubbings: Capturing Designs from Brasses, Gravestones, Carved Doors, Coins and More

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1579901042 ISBN 13:  9781579901042
Publisher: Lark Books,U.S., 1999
Hardcover