Brass Rubbing Information

In medieval English churches, flat, engraved brass sheets are secured to many church floors to commemorate the person buried there. People began to make rubbings of these brass memorials by putting paper over the brass and rubbing the surface with a hard, colored wax.

There are four famous life-size brass memorials of knights in armor in eastern England, and while there in the 1970s, I made multi-colored rubbings of them.

When my wife and I moved to a new house a couple of years ago, we had a hallway where I could display the Big-Four knights. So, I planned to cut out the rubbings, mount them on new black paper on foam board, buy expensive frames, protect the rubbings with heavy glass or plexiglass, and hang them up.

Then I had an epiphany. I had the rubbings scanned and used the digital files to have the rubbings printed on canvas, which I mounted on wood frames and hung them in the hallway where they are lightweight, replaceable, and stunning.  

I can print them on canvas and on tea towels, mugs, and other items.