HI All I saw this sad attempt at the art of Marbling on the Today show this morning. It was 3 minutes long.I thought of Iris when she said "you just get some ...
Hi everyone, I was really shocked after watching this show. I think it was made only for commercial use and for her advertizing. It is a Turkish art and not...
Here you go: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=55449761 A query was sent to me by someone working for her several months...
Here is the link to what was on the Today Show - Martha and Marbling. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/30106300#30106300 Pretty awful - not to mention...
Sevgili Süreyya ,  Siz türkçesini yazın biz ingilizceye çevirelim.  Sevgilerimle.  You can write turkish , l can explain english.  Best Wishes.. ...
It would be nice to spice things up, doing Zen whilst marbling. (might as well Feng Shui the studio ) (probably it is being done and I do not know of it) There...
Hi, I have not yet done any marbling...but recently inherited a box of several colors of Cockerell Powdered dyes, but no instructions. Can anyone help me. I am...
Hi! I have received corrected information from Kitty Easton. My apologies for posting incomplete information. Corrected information is below with her email...
Hi, All, I have been contacted by Kitty Easton, who is wanting to find a good home for her mother's copies of "Ink and Gall," which she says are in pristine ...
Hi all! I'm new to this group, but have been marbling for the past year. I'm wondering what paints you use - I currently use Golden fluid acrylics, but I've...
Hello fellow marblers. A long time since I have touched base, but I am still marbling, and have recently updated my website, which has the same wording -...
When I read the title of the exhibition in Turkish News in New York, I thought it must be Hikmet because he has an Ebru book with the same title, but it turned...
excerpted from 'Dream of Water Ebru -the living tradition' page 36 (Hikmet Barutcugil's book) : The art of marbling,as like many other Islamic arts,developed...
It seems local hibernation in Turkish marbling is over ! Today I read in Zaman newspaper (they have a US web site and edition): Ali Þentürk ,a high school...
The feat was successful. Sponsored by the Turkish Chamber of Commerce, there was a custom made tray set up in a big tent on the agora. He marbled three pieces...
What I find so captivating about the marbling process is the unknown. However once I figure out a pattern or technique it doesn't loose the mystery, it...
Dear friends, I need to learn which is the best distance between the needles for a "bouquet comb". I'm working with a comb with 5cm. but I don't like the...
... is made by boiling bones etc. of certain sorts of fish to extract the collageneous contents. A very strong and elastic adhesive, it is still used in...
Dear Suzanne, Thank you for your response. It is upto the donor's generosity how much to unveil. I once wondered how they made Islamic calligraphy on skeleton...
Hi Oz, ... Thus, to keep an old craft, to keep paper decorating alive, it is necessary to make sure that as much knowledge as possible is handed down to as...
Antonio, to my knowledge they are still marbling at Cockerell's, only in a semi-industrial process (says Eva van Breughel). Their website was deleted some...
I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Cockrell in 1984 and he graciously gave me a tour of his marbling studio and bindery (I was still a beginning marbler at...
As you can imagine this marbling group is very attractive to Ebru makers from Turkey or whereever they are . Member friend Emine from Germany posted her...
Hi all, tell this to your supplier: The National Archives of Sweden discussed whether the increased amount of calcium carbonate to substitute paper fibres in...
Dear Sureyya, I think the marbling group is interested in the burnt marbled paper through usage of acyrlic paints that you have previously mentioned. Could you...
Yes, Iris is right, the rich reds we are accustomed to seeing here were not attained during my summer studies in Turkey. The colors are more subdued than ours,...
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