Traditional Marbling Patterns

Some other techniques to try create negative areas in the design by placing soapy water or small droplets of synthetic gall on the surface with an eye dropper or by sprinkling it on.

Traditional marbling patterns.

They can be made in any other color theme you wish. Ebru is the traditional turkish art of creating colourful patterns by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper. These samplings are only meant to be a guideline and to show some basic traditional marbling patterns. The featured pattern is called the feather pattern.

A traditional pattern often seen in old bookbindings this one has been around for centuries. The shapes in this pattern look like feathers. To see many other colours and patterns please. Turkey and persia 1.

Combed or nonpariel 12. Handmade marbled paper art on water papers are hand marbled with traditional marbling tools. It is often employed as a writing surface for calligraphy and especially book covers and end. Jan 6 2019 hand marbled paper and fabric.

Using a comb in one direction after the gel git gives you the traditional non pareil pattern that most think of with marbling. Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. Turkish or stone marbling. Peacock or bouquet pattern.

They are excellent for bookbinding grain long collage origami scrap booking and other paper crafts. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface such as paper or fabric. Sometimes called the snail pattern. Known as marbling the designs and effects include flowers foliage ornamentation latticework mosques and moons and are used for decoration in the traditional art of bookbinding.

Brian mixed up two bath solutions for us one boiled from irish moss carrageenan in the traditional method and the other a more modern version mixed from commercially. It s not one of the easiest to learn though. With room to paste a sample of your work for each main pattern you ll then progress into 30 more advanced patterns. Fancy combed across 9.

Beginning with the four foundational patterns stone chevron getgel and nonpareil heather s step by step photo illustrated instructions will show you everything you need to know to accomplish every design. We also discussed the challenges of researching and learning historical paper marbling patterns since there is no single agreed upon lexicon for describing the patterns. The peacock is the most popular and famous pattern in marbling. This is a very standard pattern it is the base from which all others derive.