Friction pressure

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A friction print is a copy of a wood or metal cut made without the use of a printing press . The process is comparable to Chinese stone rubbing .

The moistened paper is placed on the printing block and rubbed with the help of a rub. In the past, leather pouches filled with animal hair were used as graters. If one uses brushes as a grater, one speaks of brush pressure .

The technique of friction printing only allows printing on one side of the paper, since printing on the 2nd side would smudge the already printed side.

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