{"id":1136,"date":"2012-06-19T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2012-06-19T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:54:53","slug":"ebru-art-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Ebru Art in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ebru Art&#8230;what is that?<\/h1>\n<p>Wikipedia tells me&#8230;.that in fact, Ebru Art is &#8216;<em><strong>Paper Marbling<\/strong>\u00a0is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Marble\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marble\">marble<\/a>\u00a0or other stone. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Sizing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sizing\">size<\/a>, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Paper\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper\">paper<\/a>\u00a0or fabric. Through several centuries, people have applied marbled materials to a variety of surfaces. It is often employed as a writing surface for\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Calligraphy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calligraphy\">calligraphy<\/a>, and especially book covers and endpapers in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Bookbinding\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bookbinding\">bookbinding<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Stationery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stationery\">stationery<\/a>. Part of its appeal is that each print is a unique\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Monotype\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monotype\">monotype<\/a>.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had the unique experience of being shown first hand by Coskum Uzunkaya from the Turkish Cultural centre here in Istanbul just what and how Ebur Art is achieved. He happily gave me a &#8216;sample&#8217; and I was impressed with the patterns and designs that Coskum made in a few short minutes. www.tkhv.org<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1138\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC03984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1138\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1138\" title=\"Coskun Uzunkaya &amp; Christopher Hogan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC03984-574x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC03984-574x1024.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/DSC03984-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished artwork by Coskun Uzunkaya<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebru Art&#8230;what is that? Wikipedia tells me&#8230;.that in fact, Ebru Art is &#8216;Paper Marbling\u00a0is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth\u00a0marble\u00a0or other stone. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as\u00a0size, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}