
This delightful book explores the fun and easy craft of rubbing.
Rubbing offers immediate gratification and, as this book demonstrates,
can produce designs suitable for framing, painting, and stitching.
Author Cecily Barth Firestein exlains the tools and materials required and
demonstrates the basic methods for making dry and wet rubbings. How~to photos and detailed instructions show you how to rub on different types of paper. In addition, the author demonstrates how to make rubbings on fabric.
Soon you’ll be rubbing elevator doors, leaves, fish, old coins and manhole covers! Twelve delightful projects demonstrate how to turn these rubbing into attractive note cards,a needlepoint pillow, a room divider, T~shirts, a lamp shade, and more. So grab some paper, a few crayons, and get out on the street and rub!