Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 Venue: Warwick Furnace Farm, Kimberton, PA Level: Talk (all welcome) Robin H. Ashby presents an artist's talk on the history of paper marbling at Warwick Furnace Farm — a working lavender farm in Kimberton, PA devoted to tradition and craft. This is a new venue for 2026. To book: enquire via the contact form.

Date: Thursday–Friday, October 22–23, 2026 Venue: School for Bookbinding Arts, Winchester, VA Level: Intermediate A two-day workshop combining intermediate marbling with blank album construction. Participants marble papers and bind them into a finished album. Held at the School for Bookbinding Arts in Winchester, VA. To book: SBA site →

Date: Saturday January 30 – Friday February 5, 2027 Venue: John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC Level: Intermediate Format: Full week residential A full week residential intensive covering both paper and fabric marbling. Held at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC — one of the great American craft schools. Accommodation and meals included. To book: JCCFS site →

Date: Thursday–Friday, July 23–24, 2026 Venue: School for Bookbinding Arts, Winchester, VA Level: Beginner A two-day introduction to paper marbling using acrylic paints. Suitable for complete beginners. Held at the School for Bookbinding Arts in Winchester, VA. To book: SBA site →

Date: Thursday–Friday, September 24–25, 2026 Venue: School for Bookbinding Arts, Winchester, VA Level: Intermediate A two-day intermediate marbling workshop for students with some prior experience. Covers more complex patterns and colour work. Held at the School for Bookbinding Arts in Winchester, VA. To book: SBA site →

Date: Saturday, December 6, 2026 Venue: Warwick Furnace Farm, Kimberton, PA Level: Beginner In collaboration with: Claire Rosen A beginner's introduction to the art of paper marbling, held at Warwick Furnace Farm — a working lavender farm in Kimberton, PA. This workshop is presented in collaboration with Claire Rosen. To book: Book via Warwick Furnace Farm →

Date: Saturday, July 25, 2026 Venue: School for Bookbinding Arts, Winchester, VA Level: Beginner A one-day workshop combining paper marbling with bookbinding — participants marble their own papers and use them to make a marbled-edge notebook. Held at the School for Bookbinding Arts in Winchester, VA. To book: SBA site →

Date: October 2026 (date TBC) Venue: Tara Bryan Legacy Fund, St John's, Newfoundland Level: All levels Robin H. Ashby has been invited to speak and teach for the Tara Bryan Legacy Fund — a celebration of Book Arts and Visual Arts in Newfoundland and Labrador. To book: enquire via the contact form.

Review by Robin H. Ashby Anne Chambers' Practical Guide to Marbling Paper, with its introduction by Bernard C. Middleton, occupies a particular place in the literature of the craft — it is the book many of us encountered first, and it carries the weight of that introduction with it. Chambers writes with clarity and care, and Middleton's framing situates the work within the broader tradition of decorated papers. What the book does well, it does very well: the step-by-step inst

Review by Robin H. Ashby Einen Miura's The Art of Marbled Paper is a different kind of book — more visual, more pattern-focused, and more concerned with the how than the why. The subtitle, Marbled Patterns and How to Make Them, is an honest description: this is a pattern manual, and a thorough one. Miura's documentation of pattern variations is meticulous, and the illustrations are among the clearest in the literature. What it lacks in historical depth it compensates for in p

Review by Robin H. Ashby Morris Marbles — Oxford's Paper Marbler, Edward Webster Morris (1842–1919) is a work of historical recovery as much as a book about marbling. It reconstructs the life and practice of a Victorian craftsman whose work has largely been forgotten, and in doing so it illuminates something important about the social and commercial world in which marbling once operated. The research is careful and the writing is measured. This is not a how-to book — it is a

Review by Robin H. Ashby Marbled Designs: A Complete Guide to Fifty-Five Elegant Patterns by Patty and Mimi Schleicher is exactly what it claims to be — comprehensive, systematic, and elegantly presented. Fifty-five patterns is a serious undertaking, and the Schleichers carry it off with admirable consistency. Each pattern is documented with sufficient clarity to be reproduced, and the range covered is genuinely impressive. The book sits somewhere between a technical manual a

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I will be posting some new marbling classes soon!

Due to the Covid-19 virus precautions, we have cancelled all classes for the next 3 weeks. I am happy to exchange email or phone calls...

The first blog post! How exciting :-)