Paper Marbling Workshop

During the Paper Marbling workshop, you’ll be shown how to actually produce it, and then use it to amaze all your friends, young and old, creating gift paper, packaging, original coverings and decorations. In our course you’ll learn all the secrets of this ancient craft.

It’s an elegant way of working, highly visual, and at the same time very relaxing to do, producing impressive aesthetic results: Paper Marbling.

In the marbled paper, the different colors drip onto a very particular liquid, made gelatinous by a seaweed extract. The colors thus remain on the surface, without blending into each other, and thanks to the use of combs, rods, and other tools, the spots take on more symmetrical forms, such as the well-known “peacock tail”, or designs similar to actual marble veins, which give their name to this technique.

Program

• Theory on the preparation of the glue, and colors.
• Explanation of the necessary tools to create the paper sheets.
• Creation of decorated paper sheets using the Florentine marbling technique.
• Using these sheets to cover cardboard objects, and making a folder to hold the sheets produced during the course.

The course is held with a minimum of 1 participant, and a maximum of 4 participants.