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| It's not just black and white. | 
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| You get to use fun tools like eyedroppers and whisks made out of broom straws. | 
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 A tray of water with paint floating on the surface is more fun than a laptop. 
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| You do it while standing up and moving around. | 
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| Even the flawed pieces are great. | 
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| You can turn out a lot of pieces in an afternoon. | 
The above photos are from a Turkish marbling or "ebru" workshop at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Below is some of the paper I recently worked on at Cave Paper. While I didn't form the sheets, I did apply all the walnut crackle onto the sheets. This paper is spectacularly beautiful in person. It would make a gorgeous journal cover for....writing.