hobby #61
Paper Marbling (Ebru)
Turkish water marbling art using carrageenan sizing to float pigments on thickened water, ox gall surfactants to control paint spread, and alum mordant to fix patterns onto paper. Creating combed, stone, and botanical patterns through controlled fluid dynamics.
The Fifth Pull Finally Looked Like Weather
Paper Marbling (Ebru)A sample sheet of marbled paper arrived with my bookbinding thread. Forty-eight hours later I'm buying ox gall.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Vectors Dragged Through Floating Colour Vector Fields