Name/Title
Josef Halfer and the Revival of the Art of Marbling Paper / Josef HalferEntry/Object ID
2025.16.6Description
Covers are marbled paper with green background, with red, white, blue, black and yellow. Cream pages with a dappled effect. 134p, with 17 tipped-in samples of Halferian marbling techniques executed by the author.
Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced by mechanically-produced substitutes. However, his innovations coincided with recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry and bacteriology, and he was able to apply those recent advances to solving problems that had long inhibited progress in the marbling art. The techniques that Halfer pioneered enabled marblers to take the craft to new artistic levels, allowing more detailed patterns to be achieved than ever before, and resulting in the most delicate, intricate and beautiful forms that the medium is capable of producing.Collection
Howard KistlerBook Details
Author
Josef HalferEditor
Sidney E. BergerIllustrator
Richard J. WolfeVolume/Number/Issue
One of 250 copiesPublisher
Oak Knoll PressPlace Published
City
New CastleState/Province
DelawareCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
2018Binding
Binding Type
Case bindingBinding Designer
Ascensius PressBinding Notes
Spine covered in cloth (quarter cloth), boards covers with printed marble paper with tipped-in marbled paper samples.Notes
Type is Adobe Janson. Short colophon at the back. Introduced by Wolfe. Designed by Scot Vile at the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine.
