#The Art of Paper Marbling

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Marbled Monday

This is one of our most marble-ous books because of all the great samples of marbling it includes! This is The Art of Marbling by German marbling master Franz Weisse, translated by rare book curator, collector, and marbling expert Richard J. Wolfe. This translation of Weisse's original 1940 text was published by Bird & Bull Press in 1980. The original edition of Weisse's Die Kunst des Marmorierens... was reportedly largely destroyed by bombing during WWII and is extremely rare. The Bird & Bull publication includes a lengthy introduction by Wolfe that surveys 300 years of German marbling and Weisse's place in it.

This edition also includes 14 samples of marbled paper made by Wolfe, who also marbled the cover paper for the edition. These samples include patterns created using a needle (or stylus), fantasy marbling, and overmarbling. The cover paper is also an example of overmarbling, in which paper is marbled once and then another pattern is made on top of the first.

The Art of Marbling was published in an edition of 300 copies on Green's hand made Bird and Bull paper. It was composed using Van Dijck types by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., with binding by E.G. Parrot.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Papercraft Tome for day 2 of GirlWeek!!

[toyastales]

A classical inspired bathroom.

[die-rosastrasse]

Yesterday's journal page 📖🤍

[renato-crepaldi]

"Gotham Skies" is another one from the new "Skyscapes" marbled paper collection. Release date is April 6th - next Saturday! Sales starts at 12 UTC.

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they're just two normal guys, probably

(you can find them over at my bigcartel [x] if you're interested!!)

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Lettres envoyées en mai 2024

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*I am learning how to use alcohol markers :)

[curiouscatalog]

Two more lovely examples of marbled paper on books.

Green from: The Southern review, v. 10, Jan.-Apr. 1872

AP2 .S855

Red and blue from: Appletons' journal of literature, science and art, v. 2, 1869.

AP2 .A58

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As I mentioned some posts ago, I made these textures for my mermay pieces. These were actually pretty fun to make and I could make a use of my older watercolor papers as well :) I offer one for ~FREE~ which you can download from my Ko-fi shop

Actually I made a bunch of them (it was too much fun), so if you're interested I uploaded them all here

[hrtley]

2 Freaks

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Marbled Monday

This week's Marbled Monday is all about The Art of the Book! The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding was created by Charles Holme and published in New York and London by "The Studio" Ltd. in 1914. It includes examples of many different contemporary trends and styles and elements of book design, some of which are shown here.

It also includes a lovely binding with some interesting marbled paper. It is half bound in leather with marbled paper over boards. I say the marbling is interesting because it doesn't really follow an established pattern. It's most nearly a Turkish or stone pattern, but includes some irregular swirling that was done with a stylus. The colors are a great contrasting mix of light and dark blue, orange, and brownish maroon. The light blue is actually just the color of the paper itself, which we can tell because of the wear to the cover where it has worn through the marbling.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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💌 marbled paper envelopes 💌

[joofie404]

me and the moots' cats

Mitski by me

Marbles by @thatotherman001

Phoebe by @puffpastrycrimewatch

[emma-the-artkid]

I love Alcor so much- he’s just so silly✨

I like Alcor’s character a lot so I wanted to draw him and make him a friend! this ofc isn’t cannon to the actual comic or anything but I just thought it would be cute ✨✨

I’m probably going to draw Nebula more- I really REALLY like her design and she’s just so silly! Drawing her is super fun as well so definitely expect to see more of her ^^🩵✨

Have an amazing day everyone 🫶✨✨

As always marble sky and Alcor were made by @somerandomdudelmao !! It is not mine- I just enjoy making ocs for it and drawing fanart🩵✨✨

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Decorative front and back covers and end paper taken from ‘Album de surimono’ after Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Totoya Hokkei.

Published 1890-1930.

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.