How To: Do a Tombstone Rubbing

Tombstone rubbing is a simple and beautiful way to transfer a tombstone design onto paper using rubbing wax or black crayon. Many people do this for their own genealogy research to record tombstone designs of family members, or simply as a hobby to capture unique and interesting tombstone designs in cemeteries all over the world.

Whatever your reasons for capturing a tombstone design, be sure to always be respectful and extremely careful when you're doing your rubbings so that you don't leave any marks or scratches on the surface.

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