The right point has been reached when the marbling is distributed evenly.
The soap is then carefully tasted as to its suitability for marbling by taking samples and mixing with the colouring solution (ultramarine mixed with water or silicate of soda solution).
When marbling is to be given to stoneware, the lustres of gold, platina, and iron are used at once, which blending in the fusion, form veins like those of marble.
In its subsequent descent through the numerous fissures and channels, on its way to the bottom of the pan, the coloured lye impregnates the soapy particles in various forms and degrees, whence a varied marbling results.
The first process in marbling is the preparation of the size on which the colours are to be floated.
Marbling under gilt” may also be used with good effect; but still better “marbling on gilt.
As the success of marbling depends upon the quickness with which it is executed, it is important that the colours, sponges, brushes and water, should be previously disposed in order and at hand, so that any of them can be taken up instantly.
In marbling writing paper, a sponge with a little alum water should be used to take off the gloss or shine from the edge, occasioned by the cutting knife, and to assist the marbling colour to take better.
Bouquet or peacock marbling is produced by drawing the double comb through the finished comb marble design, and if the double comb is used immediately after the cross tracing with the stick, eye marbling is the result.
For marbling the edges Halfer's marbling colours are now exclusively used; these are to be had ready for use.
A marbling trough to contain the body is used whilst working; it is made of zinc plate, is about 15 cm.
Any one wishing to learn the process of marbling edges would be wise not to attempt all the styles at once, but should be content to learn one before proceeding to another.
Thin-veined or French marbling is done upon the same ground, though it can also be done on a somewhat thinner body.
In all cases the marblingis done--both with papers and books--by dipping from one corner to the other diagonally opposite, but never deeper than just sufficient to take off the layer of colour.
Marbling rollers can be used for comb marbling as well as for small veined marbling.
It should be observed that for this kind ofmarbling only the darker shade of red is to be taken, as the light carmine lake colour sinks and does not give a fine effect.
The body may be used the next day, but for figured edges it is better after having been kept three days, and for veined marbling five days.
The whole process of marbling depends upon the peculiarity possessed by colours of floating upon a sized surface when they are mixed with oxgall, and a colour containing more gall forcing off the one first applied.
For the production of even marbling an edge-marbling roller has recently been brought out.
All these edges are out of date and in really good workshops are every day falling more and more into disuse, preference being given to marblingupon a sized ground.
An excellent treatise on the work of marbling edges has appeared under the title: [4]Fortschritte der Marmorirkunst.
The painting of surfaces to represent some other material than that of which they actually consist (as in the marbling of wood), or the deceptive representation of sculptured ornament upon them.
The film of colour in the trough may be as thin as possible; and if any remains after the marbling, it may be taken off by applying paper to it before you prepare for marbling again.
All the ordinary liquid colours that do not contain strong acids or alkalies may be used, either alone or thickened with a little gum, for marbling or sprinkling books.
More common methods of decorating edges are by marbling and sprinkling, but they are both inferior to plain colouring.
Some pleasant effects are sometimes obtained by marbling edges and then gilding over the marbling.
The above outlines will also suffice for the marbling section of the manual.
The colors needed in water color marbling are the same as for oil work, only they must of course be in the dry state.
A journeyman who is able to turn his hand at graining or marbling will usually be kept on the pay roll of the shop much longer than the man who can do nothing but ordinary brushwork.
All the above applies to oil color marbling only as work done in distemper is never varnished.
Marbling has been associated with graining because there is some few things that are in common between the two; the grainer is better equipped for the doing of marbling properly than painters who are not grainers--to say the least.
The marbling of slate (to be enamelled) in water-colours is a process which Mr. Dickson says well repays study.
The process of marbling is highly curious, both chemically and aesthetically, and may be briefly described.
The serrated and diversified effect of most comb-marbling is due to stroking the comb in waved lines over the surface.
The earlier Usually known under surface marbling or combing supplanted by the generic term of "solid agate" ware--a blending of layers Whieldon ware.
The marbling is elongated or streaked by slowly passing a coarse rake through the water.
Another very curious process is marbling the edges of leaves.
The colors which combine in the marbling are water-colors, and are distributed in the seven jars with brushes.
The preparation of ox-gall to be used in marblingis simple.
During these investigations, I have learned to know the influence of sizing upon colors and how it hindered or expedited a beautiful marbling or comb edging.
Sprinkling-water is mostly used on account of its greater expansibility and its propensity to form circular spots on the marbling ground, (sizing) for veined edges, or as an addition to the ground color of the marble edge.
For the purpose of marbling on a large scale especial arrangements have to be made, and it is wonderful how elegant and practical are the marbling rooms of large establishments.
The quicker the marbling is executed, so much more beautiful will be the edges.
All these emulsions artificial as well as natural, can be employed as expanding mediums and give better results for marbling than petroleum or naptha.
In more common bindings, all three sides are cut together and after the front edge is marbled and the book is rounded and backed, the marbling of the upper and lower edges is executed without delay.
Finally I succeeded in finding that the colors named later on are good and useful marbling colors.
Already, these wonderful achievements have become common property, only the art of marbling stood still on account of insufficient instruction and it has not made any progress in the last decade.
This variation of color is regarded by some as the real marbling characteristic of pleuropneumonia, while the whitish bands penetrating the lung tissue in all directions constitute the true marbling according to other observers.
Some authorities are inclined to consider these variations in color on the same cut surface as the so-called marbling of pleuropneumonia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
