Turkish Marbling - Saturday Outdoor Arts In-Person
Led by Christina Di Marco. We will explore Turkish Marbling, Ebru, or cloud painting and create images with stoneground watercolors by dropping them onto water thickened with an Irish moss seaweed extract. Then we’ll be combing the colors to form definitive designs which we will transfer to paper. Held in the back garden of the library.
- Date:
- Saturday, May 17, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library
- Audience:
- Adults Teens Ages 13 - 19
- Categories:
- Arts Class or Workshop Adult Programs Teen Programs
Turkish Marbling is an ancient Near East marbling art that dates from around the 1500’s, and was predated by Suminagashi, a Japanese marbling art of the 10th Century, of colors applied on water with brushes creating elemental designs transferred to paper or silk, used often as a background for calligraphy and sumi-e, painting.
From the 12th century on, marbled papers developed in Persia and India, and in Turkey were used for calligraphy of the words of Allah, and collages of life. In Europe later in the 16th - 19th centuries the marbled papers graced books as covers and end papers, the technique of the marblers kept secret from the binders.
There are many technical aspects of Turkish marbling that we will practice, using a dispersant, or surfactant, oxgall, and a mordant, alum. Our magical monotypes will be art in themselves, and the papers will lend themselves for cards, books and more.