Suminagashi-zome
By: by Tokutaro Yagi ; translation by Kyoko Mueke ; wood engravings by Rik Olson ; marbling by Robin Heyeck
Contributors: Heyeck Press; Mueke, Kyoto; Olson, Rik; Heyeck, Robin
Publisher: Heyeck Press; 1991
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Woodside [Calif.]
Language: eng; jpn
Translated from: jpn
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Marbling (Bookbinding); Handbooks, manuals; Marbled papers; Specimens
Description: First English translation of the unique description of Japanese marbler Tokutaro Yagi's specific techniques for suminagashi-zome or "floating ink,"  the art of marbling on paper or silk by floating color--usually black, red, or blue-- on water and making it spread with a lacquer surfactant to form jagged flowing lines, often resulting in patterns from nature such as wood grains, water currents, or wind patterns in a rice field.
Notes: "Designed, hand set, printed, and marbled by Robin Heyeck"--Colophon.

"Edition of 200"--Colophon.

Issued in case.

Text originally issued 1914. Cf. Preface.