Alum Marbling Fabric

Gently pick up the fabric.

Alum marbling fabric.

Directions for fabric marbling. Each print is the culmination of a tiny performance in which the artist interacts with a fluid medium revealing their temperament. Dwight rinsing off marbled fabric while barb and jan watch. Our aim in mordanting is to evenly apply an alum solution to our fabric before marbling just enough for a permanent print.

Fabric scarves ties or other items to marble we used sh silk hankies and mccb mercerized combed cotton broadcloth. The new jacquard marbling colors are the very best but any of the following can be used. Alum will help the color from the paint set on the. Remember that alum is the compound most commonly used to mordant both fabric and paper.

Jmc2 dnf seta jabi. Hang to completely dry before marbling. Methocel or carageenan best waterbased paints. Bandanas cotton hankies and even t shirts can be marbled not to mention scarves.

Marbled fabrics drying on clothes line. You can do this the night before. Laying alum sized fabric on floating paints. Textile artist natalie stopka who creates marbled works and teaches workshops on large scale fabric marbling says marbling is a very expressive art.

Fabric marbling is the art of floating paints on top of a thick solution called size manipulating the paints into patterns then transferring the pattern to an object by gently placing the object on top of the solution marbling lets you make your one of a kind quilting or other fabric item. Gently pick up your fabric which would have in turn picked up the paint patterns. The trick to adhering the paint to fabric is presoaking the fabric in alum.