Marbling Fabric Tutorial

Read the entire tutorial before you buy supplies or begin marbling.

Marbling fabric tutorial. Suminagashi translates to floating ink in japanese. Marbling can be achieved in many ways and by using water or other mediums even shaving foam as a base for transferring paints onto objects. The floating paints are swirled into patterns. Marbling lets you make your one of a kind quilting or other fabric item.

I am so in love with my new project called marbling. Part of the beauty of marbling is that no two finished pieces are exactly alike as the turks. Marbling with acrylic paint on fabric creates wonderful patterns here are detailed instructions from a marbling workshop on how how to marble on fabric. This tutorial focuses on marbling fabrics with acrylic paints.

This will be a no photos tutorial because it is that. I ve tried marbling 3 times now using different paints each time and. Today it s used to create artwork fine papers and fabric designs. It is so easy and uses supplies you can get easily find or may even have.

Marbling acrylic onto paper or cloth to create beau. Take any old sheet or an old pillow and create a super fun. Marbling is the process of floating fabric paints on the surface of a thick cellulose solution called size somewhat like oil on water. Marbling fabric the easy way tutorial i m going to share the way i did the marbling on this silk fabric.

So if you want to learn easy marbling techniques on fabric this should be a fun tutorial for you it was for me. It is that easy.