Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival
Fabric Marbling
This two-day class is specifically dedicated to textile marbling. Students will learn how to choose the right fabric and how to prepare it for the marbling process. We’ll start learning the most common marbling patterns and print them on paper in order to gain an understanding of the process. I will also teach basic instructions on how to make simple color combinations using the color wheel. When confident, Students will start marbling on fabric. At the end of the class you will have produced 12/15 different unique marbled pieces of cotton and Pima cotton (15”x24”in size). The second day we’ll expand the possibilities of patterns and color combinations. Also you will be marbling two silk scarves (size 15’x60′) in a long tray. When dry, the marbled fabric will be heat set with hot iron in order to make the paint permanent. For quilters, seamstresses, designers, book artists or anyone who will be interested in learning this delicate and fascinating process of marbling textiles.
Note: Paper marbling is a wet process and the marbled paper needs at least 6 hours to dry completely.
Students should bring: An apron (or clothing for ‘doing art’) and comfortable shoes.
Two-Day Workshop
Thursday, April 23rd & Friday, April 24th
9am to 4:30pm (lunch break 12-1pm)
Newport Visual Arts Center [MAP]
For adults and youth ages 16+ (accompanied by an adult)
To help ensure an enjoyable experience for all, we kindly encourage guests to consider attending fragrance-free in support of those with allergies and sensitivities.
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.
Registration for this class will go live, here, at 12pm on February 25, 2025