EVERY SO OFTEN someone says to me that I should write a book about my work and I must admit that apart from the challenge of sorting out my life and times, one of the attractions is that I would love to design some marbled end-papers for it.
There is the whole culture of marbled end-papers in books; Galileo’s books had marbled end-papers. Marbled paper itself goes back nearly a thousand years, and is thought to have originated in Japan, where one family has been continuously marbling paper for fifty-five generations. It can be done with clay too; there are several potters worldwide who make their ...
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