I have heard of this pattern of marbled paper called the "oak leaf" pattern.* info I can gather about this pattern is scarce, as well as examples of it. the...
Hi -Â Basically you're right about how the example in the marblersapprentice was achieved. Â There is an initial dark drop, with a second light drop placed on...
That particular patter/paper as pictured is common to the 1700s and early 1800s, though I never heard of it being called that. I know it as a form of what is...
The article in Ink & Gall about marbling with "spots of color" is in Vol V, No.1, pg. 14-16. The picture of the wreath is in Vol III, No. 2, pg. 37. The...
Wow....yes...Signal mouthwash. I meant to try it 20 years back! Never did. Try anything. As for the pattern, its not hard, and yes, you drag a stylus through...
The Oak Leaf pattern (feuille de chene) is a variation of the Placard pattern dating to 18th century France and Germany. I cannot determine when the name was...
wow... thanks very much for the quick and informative replys you gave to my query I can probably see why this pattern never really caught on. it is very easy...
Dear marblers: I have been recently experimenting with the "tiger eye" pattern. however, I have some questions regarding this. I) the historical formulae of...
I would use in paint form, but keeping in mind that not all marbling paints react the same because there is no one generic watercolor, marbling or gouache...
Dear marblers: I have heard about this rather curious pattern called the Schrottel. There is very little info about how it is made. The only souurce is muria,...
I have gotten some pretty close ones with my gardening potash. The cheap junk that looks like dirty rock salt. I pulverize in a mortar & pestle, about a TBS....
This goes by memory, as I moved shop and my archive is boxed up, I have marbled for the last 35 years,(french and german trained (duval) usually correct 15 ct....
The pattern was created in Germany in the early part of the 18th century. It has many different spellings but Miura suggests in his spelling that the pattern's...
Dear marblers: I have 2 questions regarding gall: 1 how does one prepare the bile, that is fresh from the animal to make it suitable for marbling? 2 has anyone...
My adventure (note, ONE adventure!) with processing my own gall, minus any instruction, was interesting. First of all I went to the butcher down the road and...
The correct German term is Schrotmarmorpapier, in English scrotel marbled paper Definition as to Decorated Paper – A Guide Book: An arbitrary pattern has...
Dear marblers: There is a sort of marbled paper called the "old dutch" From what I know of it, you make it by dropping on colours on the size using a...
When I visited Sydney Cockerell in the late 1970s, William Chapman was using a device that sounds like what you describe. It was a wooden frame, similar in...
Yes... that's it. You can build just a rake, and dip into pots of color and do this row by row. I love their papers, yet I often get samples sent to me with a...
UPDATE: Dear marblers: I have just got my gall today. it came in the form of 5 bladders, from chickens. the fluid is a very dark green in colour. I added about...
Hey...they used salmon gall, fish gall....so why not chicken. Keep us posted! Iris Nevins www.marblingpaper.com<http://www.marblingpaper.com/> ... From:...
