Ye Olde Brass Rubbing!! Fun for ages 5 to 105
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About Monument Brassing...
First of all if you expected an adult web-site talking about "Brass Rubbing" you are way off track!! And before you e-mail us with a joke about what it's called go ahead but know we've heard it before, :p
In the medieval and early modern periods in particular, Monument Brasses were popular forms of monuments or memorials used to cover the tombs of those buried inside churches. A Monument Brass, is engraved on sheets of metal inlaid in matrices cut into the stone; they have been made in England from the thirteenth century to the present day. Monument Brasses were designed in a range of styles reflecting the general trends in art of their period. They can be studied from a variety of perspectives, including the artistic context and iconography of the monuments and the life, dress styles, improvements in armour, self-image and religious beliefs of those commemorated.
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Charles I
Brass Rubbing is basically the art of making a picture of a memorial brass by placing a sheet of a special type of paper over the brass image and rubbing it with a special type of Wax to create a copy of the imageon the paper. This takes a reasonable amount of skill, time and patience but the result is one that is very rewarding.
