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Rake / two opposing passes
Gel-git
“Come and go”
A wide comb travels east, then west. The return pass answers the first with tidal symmetry.Atelier no. 90 Beyoğlu · London · on water
Nothing staysstill on water.
An ebru bath you can touch. Drop mineral colour, pull it into feathers, and lift the exact moment onto paper.
Enter the trough↓- Bath
- 19.2°C
- Size
- 6.8 pH
- Pulls
- 004 today
01 / The live bath
Marble live
Tap to bloom pigment. Drag the stylus through wet colour. A comb turns chance into rhythm—slowly enough to watch.
Keyboard: focus bath · arrows move · space dropsPigment bowls
Tap to drop · drag to draw
Bath 04Oxblood loadedOx gall · 3 drops
Combs / one sweep
One of one · pulled today
Your water,
held still.
The bath keeps only a pale memory. This sheet keeps the exact surface you made.
Download full-size PNG ↓02 / At the long table
Before pattern,
permission.
The surface must be persuaded, never conquered. We size the bath at dawn, grind earth and lake pigments by hand, then wait until a horsehair brush gives the right open bloom.
Our walnut trough is 94 centimetres long and carries a shallow sea of carrageenan. Every colour has its own appetite for ox gall; too little and it sinks, too much and it bullies the field.
The day’s first sheet is always kept in the studio ledger. It records the weather, pH, pigment order and the maker’s hesitation — useful information, all of it.
- 14.2
- litres in the long bath
- 6.8
- working pH at 19°C
- 41
- horsehair brush knots
- 90 sec
- paper rests on colour
03 / Pattern field notes
Three grammars
of movement.
A pattern is not decoration laid on top. It is the visible history of every tool that crossed the bath.
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Fine comb / 24 teeth
Nonpareil
“Without equal”
Fine teeth cross a gel-git field at right angles, tightening waves into a disciplined feather.III
Stylus / alternating S-turn
Peacock
“The eye opens”
An S-curve stylus pass gathers nonpareil feathers into watchful eyes and proud necks.04 / Pigment behaves
The quiet
chemistry
Colour floats because surface tension has been negotiated drop by drop. Our recipe is a starting point, never a commandment.
Bath ledger · summer formula
For a 14.2 litre trough
- 14 Lsoft water
- 62 gcarrageenan
- 3–9gall drops / colour
- 18 hrest before use
A drop should open to the width of a fig in four seconds. If it races: reduce gall. If it closes: add one drop, then wait.
05 / The hand remembers
A lineage carried
in the wrist.
Necmeddin Okyay
Istanbul
Flower forms raised ebru from endpaper to portrait of the living garden.Mustafa Düzgünman
Üsküdar
Kept the classical bath exact, transmitting restraint alongside technique.Aylin Tekin
Hackney
Opened the first shared long-table studio between the Bosphorus and Lea.Selin Aral & guests
The Marbling Bath
Every Saturday, six places. One first print enters the room ledger.06 / Pull a real sheet
Six aprons.
One long bath.
Saturday table · 10:00–14:30
18 Barrow Lane, London E8
All materials, tea and three pulled sheets included.