Paul Garcia (from Suffolk) was one of the participants in our first Paper Marbling Workshop run by the inspirational expert tutor Victoria Hall. He has very kindly sent me these photos of some of his marbled papers he has made into a book.
His very impressive and detailed technical explanation is included below.
Fabulous!
The book is ten quarto white cartridge paper signatures hand sewn on three tapes with French lacing. The endbands are handmade in red and blue silk on a hemp core, tied down in every signature. The binding is a library binding using exposed cloth hinges with split boards, a 'two-on, three-off' Oxford hollow spine, half bound with navy buckram on the spine and corners. I had to use two pieces of the marbled paper, because the grain in the paper was along the length, which is why the back and the front are merely similar rather than the same! Also, you can just about make out my blind tooled ginkgo leaf motif on the buckram.