Description
In these three days students will learn and practice all the basics of paper and fabric marbling. The first day we’ll talk about all the materials and preparations needed to successfully marble on paper. Students will learn the most famous historical marbling patterns and will have ample time to practice. Each person will have their own marbling tray and 12/15 sheets of primed paper where to express their creativity. The second day will be dedicated to talk about how to marble on fabric. We’ll also discuss more complex marbling patterns and talk about applying ideas of Color Theory in marbling. Each student will marble 12 sheets of two types of cotton.
The third day will be dedicated to perfecting the marbling technique with the goal of choosing a color scheme and a marbling pattern that will be “printed” on a silk scarf. Each student will make two silk scarves.
About the Instructor
His youth spent in the press and a Bachelor in Graphic
Arts led him to paper marbling, restoration and bookbinding. Pietro in 1997 established “La
Legatoria del Sole,” an artisanal and production-oriented bookbindery in Turin. It served Turin’s
Municipal Archives, public and university libraries. After coming to the U.S. he started teaching
paper and fabric marbling at the “San Francisco Center for the Book” and at the Nevada
Museum of Arts in Reno.Together with his wife Vanessa he has founded Accardi Book Arts: a
book arts studio and bindery in Gardnerville to follow his passion of marbling fabric/paper and to
preserve the tradition of handmade books and boxes.
Learn More
www.accardibookarts.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Apron
Provided by instructors:
Trays
Water bath medium (carrageenan)
Metallic and acrylic paints
Rakes
Combs
Drying racks
Primed paper
Fabric(cotton/silk)