Alum Marbling Fabric

The trick to adhering the paint to fabric is presoaking the fabric in alum.

Alum marbling fabric.

Bandanas cotton hankies and even t shirts can be marbled not to mention scarves. Jmc2 dnf seta jabi. Each print is the culmination of a tiny performance in which the artist interacts with a fluid medium revealing their temperament. It bonds readily and permanently to other molecules creating a link between fiber and marbling pigment.

Fabric scarves ties or other items to marble we used sh silk hankies and mccb mercerized combed cotton broadcloth. Our aim in mordanting is to evenly apply an alum solution to our fabric before marbling just enough for a permanent print. You can do this the night before. Methocel or carageenan best waterbased paints.

Gently pick up the fabric. Hang to completely dry before marbling. Laying alum sized fabric on floating paints. The new jacquard marbling colors are the very best but any of the following can be used.

Directions for fabric marbling. Marbled fabrics drying on clothes line. Textile artist natalie stopka who creates marbled works and teaches workshops on large scale fabric marbling says marbling is a very expressive art. Remember that alum is the compound most commonly used to mordant both fabric and paper.

Dwight rinsing off marbled fabric while barb and jan watch. Gently pick up your fabric which would have in turn picked up the paint patterns. 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.