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Crayon Rubbings (Chicken Socks)
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The Old Stone Rubbing Kit: Preserving Epitaphs and Artwork from Historical Gravestones & Monuments
Gravestone, monument, and brass rubbing—the process of capturing relief impressions of lettering, carvings or designs from stone or brass plates—is an ancient and beautiful art with widespread contemporary appeal. Because it produces stunning images, as well as teaching us fascinating facts about the past, the technique attracts everyone from historians and artists to schoolchildren on field trips and followers of Wicca and other New Age practices. This all-inclusive kit has everything needed to start creating beautiful rubbings: a 60-page book filled with a history of the craft and instructions; a natural-bristle wooden brush for cleaning surfaces; two large blocks of rubbing wax, masking tape, and five sheets of 24 x 36 inch high-quality cloth-like paper. .
Price: $16.47
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Black Tigers: A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings
Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, "Black Tigers" is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors.In "Black Tigers", Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship. "Black Tigers" will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing..
Price: $26.96
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Making Paper & Fabric Rubbings: Capturing Designs from Brasses, Gravestones, Carved Doors, Coins and More
Remember special travels, preserve favourite landmarks, and capture a bit of nature with this revitalization of the ancient art of paper rubbing Clear instruction and step-by-step photographs explain the basic materials and techniques. The book then takes the craft further by showing ten projects, including a silk camisole, greeting cards, a room divider, and a fabric lamp..
Price: $14.99
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