If you're looking for a fun and simple craft to try that produces amazing results every time, paper marbling could be your next arty obsession! Paper marbling creates beautifully unique patterns that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marbling – the ancient art of pattern-making on paper – is magic. Even once all the implements (tray, paint ...

Marbled paper is an art form that dates back at least to the 17th century, when European travelers to the Middle East brought back samples and bound them into albums. Its visually striking patterns ...

Regina and Dan St. John run Chena River Marblers in the Pioneer Valley, a region known for book arts. They produce stunning marbled patterns on paper and silk. Their marbled papers are prized by ...

Eileen Canning, marbled paper with free-form combed pattern (1983) (all images courtesy Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) In our admittedly limited hierarchies of art materials ...

For Norma Rubovits, lessons in bookbinding turned into a love affair with the marbled papers that distinguish the finest examples of the binder’s art. She became a pioneering paper marbler and ...