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TYPES OF MARBLING
Marbling makes use of a special tub. The size of the paper to be used determines the size of the tub. The water in the tub is brought to the desired viscosity with the gum tragancanth. The dyes, made to float with the addition of ox-mobile into the water are sprinkled over the tub with special brushes. The paper laid onto top of tub absorbs the forms in the water and "ebru" or "marbled paper" comes into being. If no implement has been used on the sprinkled dyes, it is called "simple" or "battal ebru". The marbling attained by a thin piece of wire flicked |
across the tub from one side to the other in several parallel lines called "Gelgit" or "Tides". If a stick with small imbedded nails (comb) is run across the colors, it is called "Tarakli" or "Combed". Patterns of ebru formed by pulling a needle or thin wire over concentric drops of dye are called "Wheel of Fortune", "Nightingale's Nest" and "Floral". There are also types of marbling that ere used as a complementary calligraphic art. These are called "Light marbling" and "Support Marbling" and also "Akkase" (or "white cup"), which is produced with the help of a type of glue. The style of marbling resembling a star, considered the ancestor of the floral ebru produced by the "hatip", or preacher, of the |
Ayasofia Mosque
is called "Preacher's Marbling".
THE NEW AND OLD MARBLING MASTERS The marbling produced for panel borders of books by the patient masters of the art has today evolved into a three- dimensional art. From the book "Turk Sanatinda Ebru" ("The Art of Turkish Marbled Paper") in the Akbank Cultural Series by the famous calligraphy expert Ugur Derman we note that the important marbling masters of the past include Shebek Mehmed Efendi (d. 1773), Sheikh Sadik Efendi (d. 1846), Sheikh Ibrahim Edhem Efendi |
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Seyh Sadik Efendi'ye ait bir ebru. Marbled paper by Seikh Sadik Efendi. 
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