TAM Rubberstamp Archive

The TAM Rubberstamp Archive started in 1983 by sending out the first sheets into the network Ruud knew then, and is now over 35 years old. Still more contributions come in and only rarely the normal public can get a glimpse of what the archive contains. Several documentations about this archive are previously made, and online a large catalogue is available. (You can find an overview of all important details mentioned in previous publications (see also www.iuoma.org).

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Rubber stamps as an art form

source: Wikipedia

Rubber Stamp Art by Michael Dare

In the art world, there is also rubber stamp art. Sometimes the rubber stamps are self-made or even carved out of erasers. Today, companies in the US offer special, eraser-like rubber in larger pieces produced for this. This art is popular there, but virtually unknown in Europe. It is especially used by non-professional artists due to ease of use. It can mimic woodcuts, but is rarely used this way. The print from the carved rubber stamp is viewed as work of art on its own or one or several stamps are used to embellish a work of art with other components.
Also, other materials besides rubber may be used to produce a stamp. In fact woodcut and linocut are the same art using another carving material, but linoleum is much harder and so special tools are needed to work with it. In Europe linocut is widely used, other than rubber carving. While linocut is much used at schools or by hobby artists, woodcut is mostly restricted to professional artists because it's hard to do and takes long. Rubber carving material is available there now, but it's marketed as a children's toy and not widely used.
There are several possibilities to vary the look of those works. Paints, pigments and dye inks all create different effects, extending the use of rubber stamping from paper to fabrics, wood, metal, glass, and so on. Special ink pads can be purchased that allow for embossing and there are pens that can be used to ink stamp pads with a variety of colors for a multi-color look. All this creates possibilities for mixed media art of all sorts.
The print of a larger rubber stamp can be a work of art on its own right, and is often used as such. But it's also possible to use multible prints from the same or different rubber stamps on a piece of art to create a picture, or combine stamping with other art forms.
Of course the use of rubber stamps can be combined with other materials. The image may be embellished by the addition of chalks, inks, paints, fibers and a variety of other ephemera and embellishments.
Those works are often used in mail art or artist trading cards because they tend to be small and allow the making of series. The TAM Rubber Stamp Archive has a collection of prints of rubber stamps mail-artists used since 1983 (see link). Stamping is also often used in handmade cardmaking.
In addition, use of the stamping technique has become widely popular with scrapbooking. The variety of stamps available allow for different looks to any given page.

Michael Leigh - A1 - UK


4884

Lizzie de Bechi - UK


4729

Kunsthalde Koschitz - Switzerland


4728

Robin Crozier - UK


4448

Robin Crozier - UK


4447

Keith Bates - UK


4386

H.R. Fricker - Switzerland


1446

Michael Leigh - A1 - UK


1397

Stewart Home - UK


1384

Michael Leigh - A1 - UK


1308

Hazel Jones - UK


1238

Michael Scott - UK

Michael Scott also used the backside of his sheet to explain what he did and how he got the sheet. Michael Scott died almost 10 years ago.


1194 - backside

Michael Scott - UK


1194

Guido Rudolphi - Switzerland


985

Keith Bates - UK


639

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Rubberstamps - Wikipedia

Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood or an acrylic block to produce a more solid instrument. The ink coated rubberstamp is then pressed onto any type of medium such that the colored image has now been transferred to the medium. The medium is generally some type of fabric or paper. Other media used are: wood, metal, glass, plastic, rock. High volume batik uses liquid wax instead of ink on a metal stamp.
Commercially available rubber stamps fall into three categories: stamps for use in the office, stamps used for decorating objects or those used as children's toys.
Contents[hide]
1 Official rubber stamps
2 Business rubber stamps
3 Ready made decorative rubber stamps (art stamps)
4 Rubber stamps as an art form
5 See also
6 External links

Boog - USA


22246

Günther Ruch - Switzerland


14342

Phonolatur - Switzerland


7568

Marcel Stüssi - Switzerland


6791

Marcel Stüssi - Switzerland


5515

CL Francke - Netherlands


CL Francke - Netherlands

Ruud Janssen - Netherlands


4347

H.R. Fricker - Switzerland


3623

Ko de Jonge - Holland


2106

AFZET - Sonja van der Burg - Netherlands


1905

Guenther Ruch - Switzerland


987

Pier van Dijk - Netherlands


468

Arno Arts - Netherlands


288

Collage Sheet


05-148

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