TURKISH MARBLING
We're currently in Istanbul, and as always when we visit a new place, we seek out a traditional creative activity. This is the Turkish art of Ebru, the traditional Turkish art of creating colourful patterns by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper. Known as marbling, the designs and effects include flowers, foliage, ornamentation, latticework, mosques and moons, and are used for decoration in the traditional art of bookbinding.
Getting covered in paint splatters, that’s our happy place 🎨
Learning like this doenst even feel like learning, and that’s how it should be 🤍
For anyone interested, the process involves used seaweed powder mixed in the water, which makes the paint stick to the paper, and it also means it can be reused again and again. This technique dates back to the Ottoman Empire, and is still used to this day to decorate anything from shoes to cheque books (because they still have those here!).
We’re experimenting with marbling to use on a new packaging concept, watch this space for more on that very soon!