Marbling Ebru Colors

Natural colors are used in making ebru for centuries which are obtained from colored rocks and earth that contains oxidized metals or organic pigment colors that do not dissolve in water.

Marbling ebru colors. Ebru is unesco heritage listed traditional turkish art of water marbling creating colourful patterns by dropping and splashing paints onto a tray of water based viscous solution with special brushes. It essentially means you can create a pattern by dropping paint onto a liquid surface. We are shipping your order anywhere in the world. Using droppers to add large droplets tend to create more defects.

Blue yellow green pink red. Sprinkle the paint over your marbling size for best effect. Ebru patterns are swirly and colorful while sumihashi patterns mostly display black concentric circles. Ebru a paper marbling method that originated in turkey and central asia involves a thick liquid called size made from substances such as cornstarch.

Marbling color marbling is the ancient art of floating paint on the surface of thickened water known as the marbling size and then transferring the floating design onto paper or fabric. It has a rich history throughout europe and asia. This original video was created for you by http epsos de and there is an original digital signature in the. There are two main branches of the art.

The word ebru origin comes from persian language ebri eyebrow or ab ru face of water ebru in turkish which means marbling. Marbling is an umbrella term for aqueous surface design techniques. In this method the liquid has to be thickened because the colors used are water based and would otherwise not float. Turkish ebru and japanese suminagashi.

Oil colors and aniline paint is not used in traditional marbling. Because such colors dissolve in water and the paper is not receptive for those. No more troublesome mixing and limitations as you can add up to 5 colors or more on your marbling size. We can also customize.

Ancient method of decorating paper.