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Paper marbling. Endpaper from a book published in Scotland in 1842. Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition. Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. [1] The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size ...
Eileen Lucy " Tirzah " Garwood (11 April 1908 – 27 March 1951) was a British wood-engraver, painter, paper marbler, author, and a member of the Great Bardfield Artists. According to Brighton Hove museums, Garwood "is one of the most original and distinctive figures of twentieth century British art." [1] Her work is known for depicting people ...
Her style evolved into producing spare images that she referred to as vignettes. As well a creating marbled paper, Rubovits amassed a collection of over 4,000 examples of marbled paper from around the world. [1] She donated her collection to the Newberry Library [3] in the early 1990s. In 2010 the Newberry held a retrospective of her work. [2]
A hydro dipped automotive wheel rim. Water transfer printing, also known as immersion printing, water transfer imaging, hydro dipping, watermarbling, cubic printing, Hydrographics, or HydroGraphics, is a method of applying printed designs to three-dimensional surfaces. The resulting combinations may be considered decorative art or applied art.
A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. [1] For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to become visible. For the second, closed type, the image is visible only while the book is closed.
The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the first free page (the free endpaper or flyleaf). [1] Thus, the front endpapers precede the title page and the text, whereas the ...
Alma mater. Auburn University, George Washington University, University of Alabama. Known for. Paper craft. Louise Lawrence "Larry Lou" Foster (1944 – 2020) was an American paper marbler, book artist, book binder, and educator. She was born on January 16, 1944, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Foster attended Auburn University, George Washington ...
Rosamond B. Loring. Rosamond Bowditch Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) was an author, bookbinder, and creator, collector and historian of decorated papers. [1] She was active in publishing circles as well as craft organizations. Her collection of historic and modern papers, now housed at Harvard University, is still used by ...