Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival
Paper and Fabric Marbling
In this two day workshop, students will learn and practice all the basic patterns of marbling and all the materials and preparations needed to reproduce it successfully at home. The second day, after getting confident with the process, we’ll talk about marbling fabric and the students will have chances to marble on two types of cotton. They will also execute two 15″ x 60″ marbled silk scarves.
Students should bring: An apron and comfortable shoes.
Two Day Workshop
Thursday, April 10 & Friday, April 11
9am to 4:30pm (lunch break 12-1pm)
Newport Visual Arts Center [MAP]
For adults and youth ages 16+ (accompanied by an adult)
PRO TIP: This class pairs well with Articulated Binding with Pietro Accardi
Pietro Accardi is native to the northwestern Italian city of Turin, where his father, Gaetano, founded and operated a commercial printing press. His youth spent in the press led him to paper marbling, restoration and bookbinding. In 1997 Pietro established “La Legatoria del Sole,” an artisanal and production-oriented bookbindery in Turin. It served Turin’s Municipal Archives and public and university libraries. After coming to the United States, he began teaching paper and fabric marbling at the “San Francisco Center for the Book” and the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Together with his wife Vanessa, he has founded Accardi Book Arts, a book arts studio and bindery in Gardnerville, to follow his passion for marbling fabric/paper and to preserve the tradition of handmade books and boxes.
Sorry, this workshop has sold out. If you'd like to be added to the waiting list, please visit: www.coastarts.org/npbaf-waiting-list