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May 21, 1980

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A FANTASTIC ART FORM

Try rubbing for insomnia -and decor

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SHOWING HOW IT'S DONE, Enid Jurbin sits with some of the rubbings available. According to baid. its tun, relaxing, and a great and inexpensive way to decorate the home. (Fllsworth Dickson photo!)

By OLGA RUSKIN

A North Vancouver woman, Enid Jurbin, 1s introducing a new pastime to the North Shore. It’s brass rubbing and it can doa lot for you. It can decorate your home inexpensively. And, if you suffer from in- somnia, it can help you sleep better.

Another intriguing aspect of brass rubbing 1s that 11 takes you back to the time of knights and ladies in medieval England. It was the custom then to have a brass memonal plate engraved carefully with the image of the deceased placed over the tomb in the church.

Needless to say only the wealthy got this treatment.

Centunes later tourists to these English churches realized the artistic potential of the brass plates which

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depict in such detail the nobility of medieval England. And so _ tourists began to make rubbings of these plates just as one can do a rubbing of the image on a penny by laying down a piece of paper and lightly going over the surface with a pencil. .

Around 5,000 _ brass memonal plates remain, although a great number more of them were melted down by Oliver Cromwell for cannon balls.

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Brass rubbing became so popular in England that some of the memorial plates began to show signs of wearing down. In many cases replicas of these plates have come into use instead made from the moulds of the onginals.

Enid Jurbin has 25 such plaques which she brought back from England and

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