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nemfrog · 1 year
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Red marbled endpaper. Tales of wonder. 1801.
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noelcollection · 1 year
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The marbling pattern on the boards and endpapers of our late nineteenth-century multi-volume set of John Morley's English Men of Letters is marked by colorful spirals. I wonder if there's a metaphor here: enter the irresistible whirlpools of knowledge and lose yourself in all the information contained within!
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Images from: Morley, John, ed. English Men of Letters. New York: Harper & Bros., ca. late nineteenth century. Catalog record: http://bit.ly/40F5jaR
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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Marbled Monday
This sunny Marbled Monday, as we here in Wisconsin wait for the weather to catch up to the seasons and feel spring-like, I’ve selected The Seasons by Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson (1700-1748). There have been many editions of The Seasons since its first publication as a complete series of four poems in 1730—this one was published by The Nonesuch Press in 1927. It features five illustrations by an artist simply identified as Jacquier, who I have been unable to otherwise identify. The images are copperplate engravings made by C. Sigrist that were hand colored using watercolor through stencils at The Curwen Press. 
The marbling is a very curly French curl or snail pattern, featuring red, blue, orange, cream, and a greenish-grey. This pattern is created by first dropping colors in to the water bath and then taking a comb with regularly spaced teeth and swirling it in the water bath to make the snail pattern. 
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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itscolossal · 1 year
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Get Lost in the Endlessly Marbled Patterns of Nervous System’s New Psychedelic Puzzles
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claypigeonpottery · 5 months
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here, have a shaky video of me marbling some bunnies!
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riesenfeldcenter · 3 months
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Some unexpected marbling on two books (here and here) covering the trial of Lord Sackville, 1760.
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renato-crepaldi · 2 months
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Blue and red Waved Gelgit marbled paper. Marbled with black, blue, red and metallic gold veins, with cream stir, and turpentine spots on top. Only 10 sheets available! Signed and dated. Base paper is cream, 80 gsm, long grain. Sheet size is 66 x 94 cm (26" x 37").
Also from the new collection!
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tanuki-kimono · 8 months
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Vibrant red accents for this kimono depicting spiderweb with fallen mochi-like flowers (Kôrin plum blossoms) and maple leaves. Haori has a mesmerizing suminagashi (floating ink marbling) with gold accents, it's so pretty!
OP paired this kimono with a cherry blossoms obi, but I personally don't feel like those two belongs together? Anyway, this kimono is lined so intented for colder months, but spiderweb motif will always hint at summer for me :)
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cileklipalet · 25 days
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histsciart · 4 months
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Oceans of Blue and Gold
This marbled paper comes from The Butterflies of Australia (1914) by Gustavus A. Waterhouse.
View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Museums Victoria and the Atlas of Living Australia for digitizing.
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patternbase · 10 months
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Iridescent Abalone Print by Kristi O’Meara // The Patternbase
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nemfrog · 2 months
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The zoological keepsake. 1830. Book cover.
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curiouscatalog · 5 months
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Book art is just stunning sometimes.
From: Park, Mungo, 1771-1806. The life and travels of Mungo Park. Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo ; Hay & Mitchell, 1896.
DT356.P3 1896
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uwmspeccoll · 10 days
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Marbled Monday
This week's Marbled Monday is all about The Art of the Book! The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding was created by Charles Holme and published in New York and London by "The Studio" Ltd. in 1914. It includes examples of many different contemporary trends and styles and elements of book design, some of which are shown here.
It also includes a lovely binding with some interesting marbled paper. It is half bound in leather with marbled paper over boards. I say the marbling is interesting because it doesn't really follow an established pattern. It's most nearly a Turkish or stone pattern, but includes some irregular swirling that was done with a stylus. The colors are a great contrasting mix of light and dark blue, orange, and brownish maroon. The light blue is actually just the color of the paper itself, which we can tell because of the wear to the cover where it has worn through the marbling.
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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duran-binding · 7 months
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This is my second @renegadepublishing FFWAD book, The Right Thing To Do by lovesbitca8 (each of my favorite ships got an author copy!)
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The paper was hand marbled by myself, the cloth was given to me by @robins-egg-bindery some time ago and it perfectly matched my headbands so I had to use it! My first in this style which I believe is called a "half bind" to account to the corners.
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book-historia · 1 year
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There are so many different patterns of marbled paper out there! Marbling is done by suspending colorful inks in a bath of semi-viscous fluid, then placing a piece of paper on top; when you lift the paper, it picks up the inks. You often find marbled paper on the bindings or endleaves of books 📚 Douglas Cockerell and Son in the UK were known for their INCREDIBLE marbled paper patterns in the middle quarter of the 20th century – this is one of their paper sample books, and how their paper looks in a binding 😍
You can see more of Douglas Cockerell and Son's marbling process here!
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