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I used to do marbling--or marbleizing, as we called it--when I was a grad student in art at URI  (non-degree, so I could use it as a studio). I often led workshops in marbleizing, especially a few weeks before exams, when everyone else was tense.  You marble paper or cloth or even your body by floating an oil-based ink on water, or by floating water-based dyes on some sort of methyl cellulose, I think. At URI we used the former method to use up old lithography ink and often to overlay not-so-spectacular prints.  It can be messy, and for years, kids marbled their hands and printed them on lockers, etc.  It's also fumacious  (is that a word?), so a fan or vent is helpful.  Professionally, special combs are used, but we didn't have any, so we used sticks or brushes, hands, old plastic combs, etc to roil the water into beautiful patterns--what you see is what you get when you lay the paper on the water and roll it off.  Often the professional papers are used as end papers in expensive books.  Linda
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