OK.... well, I find the most reliable stormont colors will be ultramarine blue and lamp black, and you can mix them for a nice navy blue. Any color should...
Dear marblers, My name is Chris, I'm book restorer and beginner in marbling. I have started with paper marbling using oil colors, but I didn't got so...
Welcome Chris. I am planning to try marbling paper and fabric using oil colours and am wondering if it will work. Anne [Non-text portions of this message have...
Dear Chris If you want to reproduce the marbled papers that you find inside old bindings, like the nonpareil, curl, stone, &c. , it would be very hard to do so...
Chris, You will be inundated with suggestions. I use Utrect acrylics per Galen Barry. Galen gives classes and has a small instruction manual which you...
Chris, There is only one advantage to marbling with oil vs water color or acrylics... and that is you don't have to alum your papers before marbling. Keep in...
Am excited to announce that I will be teaching two separate 3-hour sessions of paper marbling at my favorite paper store in Ohio, Marco's Paper. The class is...
And, Chris, be prepared for years and years of learning (and cost, and binning, and reconsidering, and joy, and disappointment, and wonder) before even...
Have a query for marblers who also happen to be bookbinders. Used Fabriano & Canson Mi Tientes art papers marbled with Golden acrylics on a carragheenan size...
Pat, Sometimes I seal my papers, sometimes I don't. If I know that the book is going to have hard use I would definately give them a light spray of a sealer,...
That is up to the bookbinder. I think most don't do it. When I was studying bookbinding, I preferred to lightly wax, with a lightest coat of paraffin, then...
Normally the dry pigment/powder is ground with a medium, sometimes oil, sometimes glue/paste , sometimes soap on a glass or marble slab with a muller until it...
As a conservator and hand binder (now retired), I usually protected papers used on the outside of a book. While I didn't go to the extent that Iris described,...
That said....I RARELY do it, it is so much work. But it is so worth it to bring up that polish/shine by burnishing. It's like the pre-1860s look, a more subtle...
Chris- shellac comes in several hues, so the reddish tone can be avoided. But the real problem with shellac is that it's hygroscopic. I'd think twice before...
I've often coated the paper with a 3-5% solution of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose or food-grade gelatin, followed by an application of Dorland's Wax Medium....
I used to glaze my papers using a mix of egg white and alum( I have posted more on this subject in this forum under "Aher" ). you take the white of an egg,...
I did the egg white/alum with you at i think the Baltimore conference years ago with you Jake. It is a nice finish but lots of work. I take the easy or...
Anthony, there are actually many forms of aher/ahar. The one employing alum and egg white is generally used in Turkey, but the textual sources in Arabic,...
Greetings Fellow Marblers, Later this year, I will be presenting some of my research on marbling drawn primarily from Persian sources in two parts at two...
THANK YOU JAKE.... for all your work and information for decades, and your dedication to marbling. You are a gem! Iris Nevins www.marblingpaper.com On...
Appreciate everyone who chimed in with their expertise on the polishing marbled paper query. As always, a wide variety of answers & processes to employ. Am...
Dear marblers ; Does cockerell marbled papers have a website? . If they do not, is there any other way in which I may contact them to arrange a visit? ...
I have heard that the chap who was producing the Cockrell marbled papers is no longer able to work due to ill health, so I do not think there is a functioning...
hello anne, se nd me your s nail mail address a nd I will sen d youj some sa mplesof oil marbli ng. I dontknow hbow to se nd poctures by email, but yhou...
