to fig1 thereof there is shown as an example of an article a pencil with a wooden casing 1 containing a core 2 a gripping zone 3 with raised structures in the form of ribs 4 extending in the longitudinal direction of the pencil is provided on a circumferential surface of the wooden casing 1 the circumferential surface being provided for example with a coating of paint the ribs 4 rather than being provided directly on the pencil surface are provided on a shrink film 5 which in a state of prefabrication loosely encloses the subsequent gripping zone as is shown in fig1 during heating the film contracts and then adheres firmly to the pencil surface the ribs 4 need not necessarily be provided on the shrink film they may also be produced subsequently by conventional processes for example in accordance with european patent ep 1 177 108 b1 or published non prosecuted german patent application de 203 14 274 8 a shrink film is a cold stretched thermoplastic film for example based on petp pe or pvc a further possible way of producing the gripping zone 3 is indicated in fig2 here a blank 6 a of a film 6 is wound around a pencil surface region forming the subsequent gripping zone 3 and is fixed thereon for example by adhesive bonding it is particularly expedient in such a procedure for the raised structures u2014 which in the present case are protuberances 7 u2014 to be produced before the film 6 is applied rather.