Suminagashi

Barbara Hodgson

A miniature book chronicling the author’s experiments with this Japanese form of paper marbling, in preparation for creating samples to be included in Decorating Paper. In the course of her experiments, she discovered that there were so many options with papers and inks, that it would be prudent to make the trial samples as small as possible. Over 300 small sheets (2.5 x 3 inches) of gampi, mulberry, kozo, hosho, yatsuo, Guarro, Rives, were marbled with Boku-Undo marbling dyes and Royal, sumi, Chunghwa and Kohinoor inks.

The brief text was printed on J. Whatman handmade papers (a mixture of laid and wove). It is followed by a series of samples on different kinds of gampi. Set in Garamond. Edition of 12 copies (+ 3 A.P.) signed by the author, bound in full leather by Claudia Cohen, in a box. Miniature. HM Editions 2014