I am a fabric marbler and needed to ask your expert advice. I purchased some pickling alum from a Mennonite grocery store and I was wondering if there is any...
Potassium aluminum sulfate is relatively inexpensive. 5 lb. of alum from Pro Chem lasts quite a while. I order 5 lb or by the pound when I'm ordering other...
Greetings Marbling friends, I haven't checked the site in awhile and it seems alot is changing-- Laura is moving, Susa has a new address, Marie has a new...
Over the week-end, I had the opportunity to go to the Ottawa antiquarian book fair. To my delight, Lucie Lapierre was there with a stall of her papers. Between...
Hello out there in cyberspace from here in northwestern Pennsylvania! I thought I'd join the group for what I can learn and what I can add. I'm a self-taught...
Satin is not a fabric, it is a type of weave. Silk satin is quite luxurious. Silk Charmeuse of a slightly different satin weave and is more supple than silk...
Hello Everyone, Since I am moving Dec.4 I wanted to relay my 2004 teaching schedule before the computer is boxed. Jan. 25-31, "Color Explosion: Dyeing Fabrics...
A question and a comment: has anyone found inexpensive paper, as in $.20 a sheet, that is working for marbling? I had used Borden and Riley #10 penny sketch...
Hello, Is paper marbling a thread right now or is it the main focus of the list. I am a rank amateur dabbling in fabric marbling and was hoping this list...
Greetings, Sound the trumpets, ring the bells!!! The slide sets and CDs from the IMG 2002 Waterworks Exhibition were mailed Priority today. Those who ordered...
Karli Frigge from The Netherlands does the finest and most beautiful patterns with her normal pigments on ordinary thin bookbinder's cloth, and I use my wooden...
Oak Knoll Press announces a special pre holiday sale. For a limited time we are offering a selection of our new books at 50% off retail. The sale lasts only...
re.: "Never mix paints! esp. rakes and combs. if the tray is well cleaned it is usually ok." I have heeded this advice, and I have never tried using tools...
This for Jake Benson. I told someone at GBW that I had enough marbled paper for one of his projects. I knew I had one of your nice big sheets of nonpariel red....
Just wondered why the gelatin size if not for polishing? Are you using as a fixative of sorts, and do you do it after the paper is dried and flat again, or...
Technical gelatine is useful for sizing as well as for polishing. The difference lies in the concentration and in the procedure. Gelatined surfaces (that's...
Test #1 for today......Ingres and no alum, pretty OK, without condensed veins....they run. 46% humidity 65 dregrees F. Ingres with alum......yummy.....feels...
I cannot find any ox gall suitable for marbling in Wellington New Zealand. I seem to be able to only locate "refined" and my research says this is not...
Hi all - I know it's fabric and not paper, but for those of you in the Arizona area, our trunk show of marbled designs will open on Thursday, Nov. 20, 3-9 PM...
Using MC for a almost unperceivable protective layer is rather fine if you do it with MC1000, 1,2 to 1.5%. There are differences, though, if the surface is...
have been reading with interest and dismay the postings on paper. thought i'd add my tale of woe. Have been marbling very successfully on almost any kind of...
One of the sentences I say in every course and every lecture and write in at least every second publication is this (or one of its very dear friends and...
Well, Iris, I'm not sure that has to do with the base paper. I'm no chemist, so what I'm saying now is not knowledge but conclusions from experience......
Here's another wrench to throw into the mess! Various color pigments will react differently to the alum bonding process. (Iris has mentioned that sometimes...
Thanks all for your good thoughts on the paper problem. Iris, yes I do use acrylics, so we may be comparing apples to oranges here. But to comment on your...
Two comments about buffering and ironing paper. Just to complicate the problem a bit, as a papermaker i routinely add calcium carbonate to all of my papers....
Paper being brittle can be caused by acidity als well as by ironing it and by several other methods. Being brittle is just one of the paper's ways to tell us...
I am so glad I have found this group! Is it too much to ask to achieve perfectly flat paper after ironing, and putting under weights overnight? I have a...
