To provide a rubbing method by which the occurrence of discharge defects accompanying a rubbing operation is reduced.

The rubbing method is characterized by using a velvet obtained by weaving cellulose based pile yarn containing the warp, the weft, and conductive fine particles such as carbon black, cutting the woven tissue having a woven structure with the pile yarn woven between two sheets of base cloths into two sheets, and continuously rubbing a long thermoplastic resin film with a fixed angle of 45 and with a squeeze of a rubbing nap of the rubbing cloth set to be 0.7 mm.