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Rubber stamp

This article is about the craft. For the political metaphor,

see Rubber stamp (politics).

For other uses, see Stamp.

Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in

With modern laser-engraving technology, personalized rubber

stamps are easy to use and it takes only minutes to make them

in a store.

Example of stamp carved from wood, approximately 1940s.

Swedish text. English: “Paid by collect on delivery".

which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied

toan image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser

engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rub-ber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as

a wood, brick or an acrylic block. Increasingly the vul-

Ink pad from second half of the 20th century. From the Museo

del Objeto del Objeto collection

canized rubber image with an adhesive foam backing is

attached to a cling vinyl sheet which allows it to be used

with an acrylic handle for support. These cling rubber

stamps can be stored in a smaller amount of space and

typically cost less than the wood mounted versions. They

can also be positioned with a greater amount of accuracydue to the stamper’s ability to see through the handle be-

ing used. Temporary stamps with simple designs can be

carved from a potato. The ink coated rubber stamp is

pressed onto any type of medium such that the colored

image is transferred to the medium. The medium is gen-

erally 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 cat-

egories: stamps for use in the office, stamps used for dec-

orating objects or those used as children’s toys.

1 Business rubber stamps

There are three distinct types of rubber stamps: tradi-

tional, where the pad is in a separate container from the

stamp; Self-inking stamps, which have a self-contained

die that rests against the pad until the die is flipped 180

degrees to make an imprint; and pre-inked stamps, where

the die itself is actually impregnated with the ink.

Rubber stamps for business commonly show an address

and corporate logo. They often have movable parts thatallow the user to adjust the date or the wording of the

stamp. They are used to date incoming mail, as well as

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2 4 RUBBER STAMPS AS AN ART FORM

rubber stamps seen in Museum of Genocide Victims Vilnius

to denote special handling for documents. In some coun-

tries it is common practice for formal documents such ascontracts to be rubber-stamped over the signature as ad-

ditional evidence of authenticity.

Business stamps are generally available from stationers or

direct from the manufacturer. Popular stamps include ad-

dress stamps and check endorsement stamps. Among the

few areas where business stamps are seeing sales growth

is in the merging of the commercial stamp market with

the creative/art side. Many people are opting to add color

and art for a decorative effect to their address stamps.

Some artists have been using such stamps to decorate

pieces of art for special effects or in an ironic way.

2 Automated rubber stamps

Document marking can be done from within the user’s

word processor. This can be done manually by creating

the “stamps” to appear on the documents in automated

document marking software for Microsoft Word. This al-

lows each page to be stamped as it is printed with the user

selected stamps created electronically. This provides the

user with a standardized and consistent document man-

agement solution for paper-based workflows.

3 Ready made decorative rubber

stamps (art stamps)

Art stamps have become fashionable in the United States,

more so than in Europe. While they are mostly regarded

as children’s toys in Europe, in the U.S. they are available

in intricate designs and are used to decorate objects. Art

stamps can be used for decoration of useful things like pa-

per for letters and greeting cards and similar things, butalso can be combined with other techniques to create tra-

ditional art.

4 Rubber stamps as an art form

Contour stamp

A toy rubber stamp featuring a pterosaur

Making of stamp by photopolymer method

As rubber stamping increasingly gains popularity, mostly

in the United States, it also gains a reputation as an art

form. Some participants choose to carve their own rubberstamps, either of old-fashioned gum erasers or eraser-like

rubber. Companies like Speedball or MasterCarve supply

carving sets to amateurs wishing to carve their own rubber

stamps, with some including linocut tools. The print from

the carved rubber stamp is viewed as work of art on its

own, or one or more stamps are used to embellish a work

of art with other components.

Other materials besides rubber may be used to produce

a stamp. Woodcut and linocut, the carving of linoleum,

are art forms based on the same principles. Linoleum is

much harder than rubber and thus requires special tools.

Woodcut is mostly used by professional artists, requir-ing much talent and patience. Rubber carving material

can be purchased, but is marketed as a child’s toy and

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not widely used. Additionally, photopolymer stamps are

growing in popularity. They are most often produced in a

set of coordinated images using a clear polymer material

on an acetate carrier sheet for storage and packaging. The

stamps are peeled from the carrier sheet and applied to a

clear acrylic handle. This allows the stamper to view the

image through the handle and effect precise placementof the image where desired. Photopolymer stamps are

generally produced in the United States for sale domes-

tically and internationally. Similar clear stamps made of

silicone are produced by U.S. companies in China. Sili-

cone stamps have many of the same properties of the pho-

topolymer stamps. The production of clear stamps makes

storage of a large collection of images easier, since they

are all used with just one set of various sized handles.

They are also often very economical being produced in

sets of several images which work together to form a co-

hesive look.

There are several possibilities to vary the look of carvedstamps. Paints, pigments and dye inks create different

effects, extending the use of rubber stamping from paper

to fabrics, wood, metal, glass, and so on. Ink pads can be

purchased that allow for embossing and there are markers

that can be used to ink stamp pads with colors for a multi-

color look. 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.

Hand-carved rubber stamps 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 StampArchive has a collection of prints of rubber stamps mail-

artists used since 1983 (see link). Stamping is also of-

ten used in handmade cardmaking, scrapbooking, and

letterboxing.

5 Stamping communities

Stamping has become a very popular home based craft,

and there are a number of forums, some with many thou-

sands of members. Craft stampers tend to be associ-

ated with other paper crafts, such as card making andscrapbooking.[1][2]

6 See also

• Seal (device)

7 References

[1] Scrapbook Update. “Splitcoast Stampers Sold”.

[2] TradingMarkets. “Internet Brands acquires Splitcoast-

stampers.com”.

3. Marking Devices Publishing Company

8 External links

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TAM Rubber Stamp Archive

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4 9 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

9 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

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will eat me, OrphanBot, Nyletak, COMPFUNK2, Hateless, Dreadstar, Lisasmall, Salamurai, Kcaptk, Onionmon, Hgrobe, Newone, Gogo

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Twich1, STBotD, Inwind, Sroc, Jacobrdavis, Dncbanks, AlleborgoBot, Kovanen, SieBot, ClaresOffice, Xenobiologista, Yintan, Vantey,

Qzkfl9, Thelmadatter, Invertzoo, Cavendishy, Martarius, ClueBot, Craftmag, Crvenotopce, Rockfang, Addbot, Wsuk, AndersBot, Sim-

plystamps, OffsBlink, Юкатан, Luckas-bot, Yobot, Stampo, Stampguru, AnomieBOT, Innab, Ulric1313, DynamoDegsy, Obersachse-

bot, TechBot, Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy), J04n, CellarDoor2001, Msprofessor, Miross11, Surv1v4l1st, Jc3s5h, Miross1111, Enobrev,

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