Best Paper For Japanese Marbling

This exciting 4 hour workshop will present historical background and introduce the time honored technique.

Best paper for japanese marbling.

Watch artisan tadao fukuda as he creates beautiful handmade marbled papers an art called suminagashi 墨流し in japanese. I suggest purchasing the ultimate marbling handbook by diane maurer mathison. A super blurry grainy and a fair amount of paint has rinsed off. Based on these examples the following heavy weight papers are suitable for marbling in a moderate value range.

Paper marbling suminagashi which translates to floating black ink is an ancient meditative japanese practice of gently floating pigments on the surface of water with a brush and then capturing the mono print image on an absorbent paper. Mr fukuda is in his eighties and very energetic to have had his marbling paper workshops everywhere in japan and even in overseas in the workshop you don t make paper but design a picture with ink colors. We also tried using watercolor and traditional japanese marbling paper made of mulberry fibers but we found that the japanese paper tore easily and was too thin. For suminagashi i ve used student grade hosho kinwashi kitakata torinoko unryu and many fine handmade japanese papers sold through aiko s in chicago now closed.

C a bit of residual paint in white areas. B somewhat streaky. D sharp edges high contrast and crisp veins showing the clean white of the paper.