Flying Colors Marbling

Of the over 350 exhibiting artists featured at The Yankee Peddler arts and crafts festival in Canal Fulton, Ohio, Mark Rosenberg of Brooks, West Virginia, was singled out to receive the award for "Best Demonstration" during the 3 weekends of the festival in September 1999. All exhibitors are required to demonstrate their crafts throughout the 6 days of the festival. Mark produces hand-marbled originals on silk and paper. Product lines include neckwear for men and women, such as marbled silk and handsewn neckties, marbled scarves, marbled silk button earrings, marbled silk and paper pocket mirrors, marbled paper handsewn booklets, computer keyboard wristrests of marbled silk, and silk drawstring purses. Mark practices marbling techniques dating back hundreds of years and utilized by colonial bookbinders. Marbling is a one-time printing process in which paint is floated on water and combed to produce intricate and awesomely beautiful patterns which are picked up by paper or silk when the media is carefully laid upon the water. Mark has been marbling for over 15 years and initially studied his artform at Haverford College in Haverford, PA. Call for a catalog: (304)466-0191 Prices, orders, and information: grancer@earthlink.net