FREE HAND | Marbling Paper Art, Marbling Art Decor, Ebru Art, Marbling Flower Carnation on Water, Marbling Flower Painting, Unique Turkish Ebru Art

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.Handmade item
.Materials: carrageenan, water, paper,
natural pigments,Ebru paper, Ebru paints,acrylic
.Ships worldwide from İstanbul, Turkey

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Materials Used In Classical Turkish Marbling
Gum Tragacanth (kitre): Gum tragacanth is obtained from the trunk of a thorny plant which grows naturally in the Anatolian, Persian and Turkistan mountains and is called “geven”. The sap oozing from scratches made on the branches later dries and solidifies into bone white color pieces. It is dropped in water with very low hardness at the rate of 20-40 grams/3 liters and kept for a while. The gum having dissolved completely is filtered through a cloth bag and poured into the basin. It should have the density of buttermilk. About 1 part of gum tragacanth should be added to 100 parts of water and the liquid should be left for at least one night to allow the gum to dissolve. The liquid then should be strained through a cloth and poured into the marbling tank. If it is too thick, some water may be added to thin it. The degree of viscosity should vary according to the darkness or lightness of the colors being used. Gum tragacanth keeps the dyes on the surface by giving body to the water and because of its transparent slightly sticky nature it forms a lacquer over the dyes. Gum tragacanth is widely used as herbal medicine (in throat and stomach diseases) and in the cosmetic and textile industry.
Paintbrushes: Marbling requires the use of special, coarse horsehair bound around a rose tree stick in a manner to form a circumference with a hollow center. Rose tree is preferred because it prevents mould. Brushes of different thickness and length enable application and control of the dye. The length and degree of packing among the brush bristles is important.
Basin or Tanks: Tanks should be made of pinewood, zinc or galvanized metal and they generally measure 35 by 50 centimeters or 17.5 by 25 centimeters, larger than the paper size (to offset the dilatation of paper when wet). These tanks have a depth of about 5 to 6 centimeters (2 to 2.5 inches). Tanks made of other materials hinder the dispersion of the dyes.
Bile (Ox-Gall): This is the most important material for marbling. A marbling artisan must understand well what is gall and what are its functions. It can be said that the secret of the marbling lies in the gall. Because of these solvent-like and adhesive-like properties, the gall that is used in marbling prevents the dye from remaining on the surface of the gum tragacanth solution and avoids dispersion and color mixing. Different types of galls are used to achieve different results. Ox gall allows the dyes to spread; turbot bile is used to achieve a “sandy” pattern whereas chicken bile stabilizes the white areas achieved with naphtha. Boiled bile will lose its properties. Therefore either fresh or pasteurized bile should be used. Its main functions are:
c. To assist dye fixation on the paper;
d. To give different shades of the same color and different size of patterns.


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Paper Marbling is an ancient art of painting on an aqueous base. The colors are dropped on to the surface using whisks,

The Process of Making Marbled Paper

Everyone has his own mixture of colors and patterns that he wishes to reflect to
Marbling results from the simultaneous operation of many accurate balances.
This property of the marbling makes it very suitable for a “therapy”.
drops thus applied form a pattern called “Battal”.
parallel lines made by a thin pencil or chip moved back and forth, you obtain “the back-and-forth”.
If this design is crossed out by means of a comb, a “combed-pattern” is obtained.
In case the “back-and-forth” is diagonally crossed again, it becomes a “shawl” sample.
is applied from the outer circumference towards the center, you obtain a “nightingale nest”(bulbul yuvasi).
When small colorful dots are spotted on the back-and-forth or shawl design, you get the “sprinkled marbling”.
obtain the “porphyry marble” effect which most resembles marble. Nevertheless, the above mentioned patterns
may be diversified by selecting one of them as a basis and making concentric drops of different colors.
other patterns which were subsequently called the “Orator pattern” (Hatip ebrusu). Later on, these patterns
developed into flower shaped marbling.

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