Turkish Marbling Techniques

Carrageen is added as a thickener to water and special paints that don t dissolve in water are used.

Turkish marbling techniques.

Turkish ebru and japanese suminagashi. Marbling is an umbrella term for aqueous surface design techniques. On a trip in kuwait i saw a woman from turkey demonstrating the turkish art of marbling. A shallow tray is filled with water and various kinds of ink or paint colors are carefully applied to the surface with an ink brush.

The art of turkish marbling is totally mesmerizing. Oil based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling. Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to help float the colors. But before we dive into the nitty gritty you ll need to select your canvas.

The best paper for marbleizing. It essentially means you can create a pattern by dropping paint onto a liquid surface. How to do the turkish art of marbling. The turkish art of marbling ebru marbling is the art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to paper.

First publication of a manuscript lyon ca. Ebru patterns are swirly and colorful while sumihashi patterns mostly display black concentric circles. There are several methods for making marbled papers. Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment.

Fine with the prospectus. There are two main branches of the art. Quarter morocco marbled boards. Instead a wetting agent such as kodak photo flo can be used.

Each of the techniques we show you in this post will employ this method using different forms of pigmentation. 1642 on turkish marbling. Bird bull press 1987. A fascinating process once used to create endpapers for books but also an art technique on its own.

Traditionally genuine ox gall was used for the marbling process but in these modern times it is not strong enough for acrylic paints acrylics are a relatively new invention. Marbling is painting in water and then transferring it to paper. The word ebru origin comes from persian language ebri eyebrow or ab ru face of water ebru in turkish which means marbling. Ebru is a traditional turkish art of paper decoration by spreading paints which do not dissolve in water with brushes made of horse hair and rose wood on dense water that is thickened by gum tragacanth.