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A interesting post about Marbling Abri Ebru

Iran's Marbling ... Kaghiz-i Abri

Jake Benson takes a page of English to describe one Persian/Iranian word ... "abri."

"Kaghiz-i Abri" is how Jake spells what the Turks call "ebru."

Marbling paper or ebru or kaghiz-i abri's history may never be known for sure but I think it has an important future.

http://marblingebruabri.blogspot.com/2018/08/paper-marbling-in-iran.html

Marbling and Pumpkins.

Growing pumpkins and now marbling in Keane, NM.  Fabulous, I like associating both activities with "Live Free or Die!"

The process of floating color on water when used with solvents that evaporate are unhealthy to the artist and the environment. Granted there was a high I got from the solvents but it had to be countered by consumption other drugs or alcohol. Old time painters with even turpentine had a high rate of alcoholism.

Large surface evaporating solvent marblingthat I was doing was banned in L.A., California forty of fifty years ago.  The heavy metal based pigments that I used were for outdoor sign painting at that time were also banned shortly after that.

Kaghaz-i Abri by an American Woman Marbler

Milena Hughes marbling

Papier Mareren - Geert van Dahl

Dutch Suminagashi - Karli Frigge

Marbling Popular Mechanics 1945

 YEARS AGO, ON A MARBLING HUNT. I WHEN TO A WAREHOUSE IN MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT THAT WAS FILLED WITH OLD MAGAZINES.