The most traditional way of paper marbling is by using a tray of water and special marbling paint. Put down something to protect your work surface, fill your water tray to about half way up and make ...

His medium is paper, his task both poetic and prosaic. Bookbinder Peter James practices the ancient task of marbling paper, which beautifies book edges while helping to preserve the pages.

Marbled paper is often used as an interior cover decoration in books, but this exhibit, a display of the Norma B. Rubovits Collection, shows how these sheets can be much more than an embellishment.