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 *