Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Markal/Shiva Rubbings

Regular readers of my blog may remember that I was using embossed wallpaper for rubbings a while back. Well I looked the wallpaper out again and tried them with the paintsticks.

This is black cotton and I used two colours of paintstick, the iridescent ones, using the embossed wallpaper in the above picture. It has turned out beautifully.


I had this plain black table linen with a gold satin stitched edge. I thought I would try some paintstick rubbing on these. I could have used a stencil but decided to try a single image from a rubbing plate as I didn't have a leaf stencil that I liked. I could have cut another stencil but I wanted to try a single leaf rubbing. It worked well.

5 comments:

Sandy said...

The rubbings are very nice. I need to try it again. The linen will be elegant to use.

McIrish Annie said...

cool idea! never thought about using embossed paper/wallpaper. bet i could get old books from the local store.

marisa said...

Thanks for your wishes.Ciao Marisa

Tonniece said...

The things you try.....wow, wow, wow, their wonderful.

Lise said...

The single image worked very well, so did the wall paper - what a good idea!!