Beside the direction one moves a comb across the marbling bath and then offsetting the comb and returning is the opposite direction, there are many variations in pattern that can be created by moving the tool side to side. But if one also rolls the comb as it is moved across the tank, thereby staggering or lifting the comb's placement out of the bath and pigments, a different patterns emerge.
One of the most innovative designs changes for a marbling comb in the last four hundred years recently came from Dan St. John of Chena River Marblers. He explains the comb this way; "
This is a complete hot air balloon pattern. The teeth of the comb are splayed in and out, the tank is deep and the comb rides on a track which is sinosoidal. Dan"
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