Traditional Marbling Patterns

Known as marbling the designs and effects include flowers foliage ornamentation latticework mosques and moons and are used for decoration in the traditional art of bookbinding.

Traditional marbling patterns.

These samplings are only meant to be a guideline and to show some basic traditional marbling patterns. With room to paste a sample of your work for each main pattern you ll then progress into 30 more advanced patterns. Combed or nonpariel 12. A traditional pattern often seen in old bookbindings this one has been around for centuries.

It s not one of the easiest to learn though. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface such as paper or fabric. They are excellent for bookbinding grain long collage origami scrap booking and other paper crafts. Ebru is the traditional turkish art of creating colourful patterns by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper.

You will need some tools such as wooden sticks to create. Beginning with the four foundational patterns stone chevron getgel and nonpareil heather s step by step photo illustrated instructions will show you everything you need to know to accomplish every design. Handmade marbled paper art on water papers are hand marbled with traditional marbling tools. This is a very standard pattern it is the base from which all others derive.

Jan 6 2019 hand marbled paper and fabric. Using a comb in one direction after the gel git gives you the traditional non pareil pattern that most think of with marbling. The featured pattern is called the feather pattern. We also discussed the challenges of researching and learning historical paper marbling patterns since there is no single agreed upon lexicon for describing the patterns.

Through several centuries people have applied marbled materials to a variety of surfaces. They can be made in any other color theme you wish. The shapes in this pattern look like feathers. See more ideas about hand marbled paper marble paper ebru art.

Some other techniques to try create negative areas in the design by placing soapy water or small droplets of synthetic gall on the surface with an eye dropper or by sprinkling it on. Peacock or bouquet pattern. Brian mixed up two bath solutions for us one boiled from irish moss carrageenan in the traditional method and the other a more modern version mixed from commercially. Turkish or stone marbling.

Fancy combed across 9. To see many other colours and patterns please. Sometimes called the snail pattern. The peacock is the most popular and famous pattern in marbling.