Yesterday I took a class on marbling paper and fabric at the Textile Center of Minnesota, which I had previously mentioned here. I bought a hand-marbled fat quarter last time and remarked about how it came all the way from Holland. I need to set the record straight on that...turns out, the fabric was made by a local artist who happens to have the last name of Holland and, well, she's the one who also taught yesterday's class!
I have about 21 different pieces of paper and fabric to share, so I'm going to break it up over the week.
This was my first piece of paper with a pattern called "stones."
I did some more stones on paper, but then used a special technique to place the paper in the bath, which created this ribbon-like, fabric-like effect:
I used the special raking tool for the next paper pieces. Those lines are called hesitation lines, I think, and are caused when I did not place the paper into the bath in a smooth/fast enough fashion. And that swirly in the bottom left was unintentional -- I dropped the paper in the water.
these are so cool, is it easy to do?
ReplyDeleteIt is extremely easy to do. The hardest part is probably the prep work (you have to let the seaweed solution rest for a day or two before using it) and then the clean up is probably the second hardest part, but the actual marbling is a piece of cake.
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