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. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands Monumental brass is a species of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the early part of the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments Brass is any Alloy of Copper and Zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties The concept of recording textures of things is more generally called making a rubbing. A rubbing is a reproduction of the texture of a surface created by placing a piece of paper or similar material over the subject and then rubbing the paper with something to deposit marks most 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. In Art, frottage (from French frotter, "to rub" is a surrealist and "automatic" method of creative production developed by
Brass rubbings are created by laying a sheet of paper on top of a brass and rubbing the paper with graphite, wax, or chalk. The Mineral graphite, as with Diamond and Fullerene, is one of the Allotropes of carbon. Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by Bees ( Beeswax) and used by them in constructing their Chalk (ʧɔːk is a soft white porous Sedimentary rock, a form of Limestone composed of the Mineral Calcite.
References
- Monumental Brasses as Art and History ed. Jerome Bertram, published by Alan Sutton.
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