{"id":667,"date":"2010-04-06T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:32:33","slug":"marbled-papers-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/marbled-papers-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbled Papers Galore!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zebra<\/a>

A coptic-style journal handmade by me using marbled paper<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve gone off on a tangent from bookbinding into making marbled paper, popular in the mid to late 19th century as endpapers in leatherbound books.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Wave - by Ruth Bleakley<\/p><\/div>\n

Marbled paper is created by floating diluted watercolor paints onto a marbling “size” – water thickened with carragean (a type of seaweed) extract. The consistency of the marbling size is like that of liquid laundry detergent, and is similarly slippery.<\/p>\n

After making the size and allowing it to age at least 12 hours to ensure all of the carragean is dissolved I pour it into a shallow pan and drop the marbling colors on the size . If everything goes as planned, rather than sink to the bottom of the the tray, the spread out the way that oil spreads on water – then I can play around with combs and toothpicks to make a fancy design.<\/p>\n

\"Suminagashi<\/a>

Suminagashi - Ruth Bleaklaey<\/p><\/div>\n

When the design looks good, I lay a sheet of paper (I use 100% cotton Meridian drawing paper by Pentalic) that I’ve treated with a solution of water and alum on the image, and the paint gets absorbed by the paper, and voila – a beautiful marbled sheet emerges.<\/p>\n

There is some finesse involved in preventing hesitation marks, spots where the paper was laid down too quickly, or dust marks from marring your design – practice makes perfect though.<\/p>\n

I’m still experimenting, but I received The Ultimate Marbling Handbook<\/a> by Diane Maurer, a well known paper marbler from Pennsylvania, \u00c2\u00a0for my birthday and I plan to try all the patterns in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve gone off on a tangent from bookbinding into making marbled paper, popular in the mid to late 19th century as endpapers in leatherbound books. Marbled paper is created by floating diluted watercolor paints onto a marbling “size” – water thickened with carragean (a type of seaweed) extract. The consistency of the marbling size is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99],"tags":[141,127,64],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}