The Original Old Stone Rubbing kit lets you preserve epitaphs and artwork from historical gravestones and monuments. A craft with no limitations for creativity in recording the works of yesteryear's craftsmen with today's new products from Gravestone Rubbing Supplies. Perfect for the beginner or expert! This wonderful gift set is a terrific introduction to the timeless art of gravestone rubbing. Everything you need to start your first rubbing can be found in this package, including: A booklet describing the process of gravestone rubbing as well as suggestions for the many ways to preserve the artworks you create, two large 1/8 lb. cakes of deep pigment rubbing waxes, 1 black and 1 rust, five sheets of acid free archival museum grade rubbing paper, 24" x 36", a natural bristle brush for cleaning gravestones, special masking tape for securing your paper to the gravestones and a black artist's tube in which to contain all of the above. The Old Stone Rubbing Kit is designed to help you embark on your own gravestone rubbing adventure by giving you the background and materials you need to be successful from the very start. We promise a delightful experience, and the opportunity to share in a centuries-old hobby. Proudly made, assembled and printed in the USA.

Gravestone, monument, and brass rubbing—the process of capturing relief impressions of lettering, carvings or designs from stone or brass plates—is an ancient and beautiful art with widespread contemporary appeal. Because it produces stunning images, as well as teaching us fascinating facts about the past, the technique attracts everyone from historians and artists to schoolchildren on field trips and followers of Wicca and other New Age practices. This all-inclusive kit has everything needed to start creating beautiful rubbings: a 60-page book filled with a history of the craft and instructions; a natural-bristle wooden brush for cleaning surfaces; two large blocks of rubbing wax, masking tape, and five sheets of 24 x 36 inch high-quality cloth-like paper.

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.

Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, Black Tigers is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors. In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship. Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing.

A collection of old-fashioned country wisdom on all kinds of topics describes how to make and cook things, read the weather, and dowse; and provides lore on animals and plants.