Hello all, I was google around the web searching for old marbling books and texts and I found an article about marbling edited in march 1869....tree pages of...
Thanks for posting that Renato! Iris is certainly right, but boy I would love that calendar machine on the third page! I have seen other designs, but this is...
Hello good folks, I am in the process of making a website for my dear wife, Mary Thouin-Stubbs and her marbled wood working. (There is much more coming, so if...
about a conservator called John Hyltoft who is a decorated paper maker as w= ell?
I saw some of his sheets in Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna and found=...
Dear all, Those three pages in the March 1869 issue of MANUFACTURER AND BUILDER has some information about the methods and materials used at that time but...
Feridun, you are quite right in pointing this out. The story given in the = article is one of the most hilarious stories I've encountered! Then again it is,...
Great Jake! Tradition to my thoughts is sort of like playing "Telephone"....the message keeps changing and changing.....and it is always evolving or morphing...
Yes....cute stories abound......I wonder if the one about how Spanish Marbling came to be has any truth in it.......! I like that one being of Spanish descent,...
Feridun, I just tried to email you off group but the mail was returned as unknown. Have you switched addresses? If so can you drop me an email and let me know....
Iris - leave off the sprinkle bottles. They don't sprinkle, they splatter. The modern ones (those that are used also for spraying your cacti) are not much...
Yes...I find most experiments fail....but a few don't, and WOW...the tradition evolves! IrisNevins Message text written by INTERNET:Marbling@yahoogroups.com ...
Galen Berry's Marbling Workshops have a few spaces left if anyone is interested ... Walnut Creek is across the bay from San Francisco, CA. Newport and ...
Susanne, John Hyltoft worked as a conservator at the Smithsonian libraries in Washington for a number of years. He retired in the mid-90's and last I heard...
Hello everyone, I've been wanting to share a few links with everyone. This is taken from a list of links that I've compiled for the Society of Marbling site...
Just a small typo. In my last post I refer to the photograph from the Nikkei press web site but omitted two words for clarity: "The caption says that this...
Hi, I remember seeing my mother use the sprinkle bottle for ironing, but had never thought about it being starch. I believe the bottle was like a coke...
You can still buy those sprinkle ends for pop bottles from Regal. Actually all that was in the bottle was water used to dampen the clothes before ironiong...
This dates us, eh?LOL! Iris Nevins Message text written by INTERNET:Marbling@yahoogroups.com ... You can still buy those sprinkle ends for pop bottles from...
... and everyone who detests ironing as much as yours truly is invited to compare ironing with a bulky steam iron to ironing with a nice light-weight normal...
To those among you who use Hahnemühle Natural Line (Natural Tex in US, I be= lieve):
I am having an ugly problem with the last lot; paints cannot brushed on...
Is that for paste paper.....I just sampled a new lot of NaturText and it marbled just fine. Hmmmmm, better not be more paper trouble. Is it a smooth paper? ...
No, the paste paper sheets are just a bit rougher on the surface, otherwise= they behave like they did before. It's the sprinkled ones I'm having the problems...
Susanne......I suspect that paper makers, like commercial paint makers....the formula varies from one batch to the next due to laxness, I saw this over and...
Susanne- is what you are using Hahnemuhle Kongress paper? That is a less expensive laid paper that they make. the grain is short, like Bugra. I have a fair...
Hi Jake....I tried literally EVERYTHING they carried and liked the NaturText, which I get cut long grain 19 X 25. As for drying too long after aluming, I dry...
I have been working with this particular sort as my standard since about 19= 95, I have survived all chemical changes of those years (pH etc.) without undue...
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