Art of the Marbler

49 thoughts on “Art of the Marbler”

1. The music !!!

2. Merci c'est un travail de pro

3. i dont know how i got here o – o but i like dis

4. Marbelous!

5. I can imagine a borstal or HMP prison in 1971 and a chaplain saying to a group of unruly youths 'now, now, now, if you keep behaving like a bunch of savages you won't get a chance to watch this afternoons film…'

   so the prisoners all sit down quietly…

   'Righty-ho, Mr Warden, now everyone is quiet and seated, please start up the projector…'

   then up on the screen 'The Art of the Marbler A Bedfordshire County Council film'

   …and then a huge riot erupts.

6. nice

7. Who else got relaxed watching this?

8. Then they used a wooden scanner to convert them to digital.

9. I wonder if that apprentice still practices the art. Beautiful. The dyes and inks available now must be inspiring to someone with these skills. It reminds me that I have a guitar I would quite like to use this technique on, I think someone else mentioned this too. Some thing for a sunny say I think 🙂

10. tout un travail

11. This guy's setup is amazing. I need to step up my game

12. ??

13. christine calling these guy wizards XD

14. This is a fine art of Ottomans'. We call it Ebru. http://www.turkishculture.org/traditional-arts/marbling-113.htm

15. crazy awesome

16. LONG PROCESS BUT COOL

17. Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.

18. lol@marbling not dieing or going away. We have computers now DUMB DUMB!

19. Stunning patterns!

20. I wonder if there any good computer algorithm that generates marble pattern as nice as these.

21. That's a great film, thanks for sharing

22. What was it with the 70’s and fucking orange!

23. I absolutely love this….goes to show how much tradition we have lost to commercialization. Sad….

24. No magic !

25. Holy shit this i awesome!

26. Search for "Ebru Art" videos, you'll be surprised.

27. One of the few uploads in which the closed captions almost exactly match what the narrator is saying.

28. thats just awesome

29. …and now, in some degree, we use the technique to make pictures on our coffee.

30. you can do this at home with liquid starch from the laundry aisle of any grocery store, watercolor paint and watercolor paper.

31. Wow, such skill.

32. Let me state clearly that a machine could be built from scratch to do this in one or two weeks with the right people. This stuff is so impressive because you wonder why they can do something for a huge period of time, and never try to increase their efficiency. How is that something to be praised?

    If doing something means doing the same thing more than once, a machine could be built to perform that job.

33. Tripping 🙂

34. All advanced craftsmanship relies on wealthy people. They are they only ones who can afford to pay for the time and skill of real craftsmen. The rest of us buy printed paper by the roll at Walmart. Thank goodness for rich folks.

35. What a wonderful art!

36. Sad this is a dead art

37. This must be disturbing af to watch on acid

38. Ebru Sanatı ??

39. The music reminds me of a Wes Anderson film. Great video; thanks for posting it.

40. Holy Moly! Incredible. I am floored. Thanks for this video.

41. my grandfather was also a wellknown paper marbler of india
    – mazhar kansara
    http://www.phdbinding.com

42. wow. just wow.

43. B

44. Very informative!

45. Craftsmanship at it's finest xx Michelle UK

46. i am sushil rana from India uttar pradash please tell me about use colour this is oil paint plastic paint or other colour thank you

47. very nice

48. Very informative!!

49. I had no idea it was so old a practice. Gosh!

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