{"id":3211,"date":"2015-08-13T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:40:53","slug":"eraserbread-using-stale-bread-as-an-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/eraserbread-using-stale-bread-as-an-rubber","title":{"rendered":"Eraserbread – Using Stale Bread as an Rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Eraserbread\"

Eraserbread<\/p><\/div>\n

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You probably thought the purpose of a piece of bread was for eating \u2013 but years ago stale bread was used as an eraser for black lead pencil marks.<\/p>\n

Art students and architects were advised to make light outlines with a soft pencil, and rub out errors with an Indian rubber or crumb of bread.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the rubber \u2013 a blend of milky tree saps from tropical forests \u2013 was more convenient and less messy, so it took over from the crumbly carb approach to erasing.<\/p>\n

In those days, though, a rubber wasn\u2019t called a rubber, it was known as \u201cgum elastic\u201d, and was first sold in the UK in the 18th<\/sup> century by a British stationer called Edward Nairne. He used to sell small cubes of the material for about three shillings, which was a lot of money at the time, although he pointed out to customers that the cubes would last for years.<\/p>\n

In the 19th<\/sup> century gum elastic was replaced with vulcanised (stabilised) rubber which had been processed, and shortly after that a man named Lipman had the bright idea of putting a rubber on top of a pencil.<\/p>\n

That began a big debate over whether it\u2019s better to have a rubber attached to a pencil, or use them as two separate items. I like to keep mine separate \u2013 which side of the fence are you on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  You probably thought the purpose of a piece of bread was for eating \u2013 but years ago stale bread was used as an eraser for black lead pencil marks. 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