Since the 12th century paper marbling has been an artistic and cultural practice throughout Central and East Asia. By treating a tray of water with a special medium, you can thicken the surface just enough to use lightweight acrylic paints or inks to dip and swirl otherworldly patterns directly onto the water’s surface.
This mesmerizing practice is as fun to watch as it is to do. After making your marbling pattern, you can simply dip your chosen substrate and pull it away to reveal your one-of-a-kind design.
One of the fascinating things about water marbling is no two designs will be alike. Since water marbling is a mono-printing process each print you make will be entirely one-of-a-kind. The surprise and unique quality of each design add to the mystique of this ancient art form.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Pink is a water marbling paint for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The Pink shade is bright and expressive, perfect for playful, romantic, or bold marbled designs on paper, wood, fabric and other prepared surfaces.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Red is a water marbling paint for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The Red shade is bold and intense, perfect for strong contrast, expressive accents, and eye-catching marbled designs.
Water marbling paints by DecoArt. Ready-to-use, vibrant acrylics in a dropper tip squeeze bottle that allow color to be dropped onto the surface of the water with complete control.
The DecoArt Water Marbling Tray is a white plastic marbling tray designed to provide stability, space, and control when applying the water marbling technique with combs and tools.
The Aitoh Boku-Undo Suminagashi Marbling Kit lets you create authentic Japanese “floating ink” patterns on water and transfer them to paper, fabric, and other dip-dyeable materials. It includes 6 pigment-based inks (no dyes) in 12 ml tubes, specially formulated to float and form crisp, controlled lines. A great choice for beginners learning suminagashi and for makers who want consistent, repeatable results.
The House of Crafts Paper Kit Creative Marbling is a complete starter kit that introduces you to the art of paper marbling in a simple and creative way. It includes all the essential tools and materials needed to create unique marbled designs on paper and cards. The inks float on water and transfer easily, producing one-of-a-kind results every time. Perfect for beginners and creative play.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Yellow Green 59ml is a water marbling paint designed for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The bright Yellow Green shade adds fresh, energetic accents to marbled designs on paper, wood, fabric and other prepared surfaces.
DecoArt Sumi Brushes are traditional bamboo-handled brushes with natural hair, offering control and precision for water marbling, calligraphy, and expressive painting techniques.
The Jack Richeson Sumi Ink Brush is a traditional-style sumi brush, ideal for ink, calligraphy, sumi-e, and watercolour. Its fine responsive tip gives you control, elegant line work, and more expressive movement, making it especially useful for lettering, linear drawing, and detail. Made with horse hair, it is a brush for artists who want clean marks with natural flow. A beautiful choice for work that needs both precision and character.
The DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Set – Modern Brights features bold, contemporary colors designed for striking water marbling designs. Ready-to-use acrylic paints with dropper tips allow full control over color placement and movement on the water’s surface.
Jacquard Alum 1lb is a natural potassium aluminum sulfate mordant used to prepare fabric or paper before dyeing or marbling. It improves color adhesion and ensures bright, permanent results on fibers and surfaces.
Upgrade your toolkit with the Royal & Langnickel Bamboo Brown Hair Brush Set. Natural brown-hair brushes with bamboo handles in sizes #1, #3, #4, #5—ideal for watercolor, inks, tempera, calligraphy/lettering, and marbling (suminagashi). Includes a zip-close pouch.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Yellow is a water marbling paint for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The bright Yellow shade adds light, energy, and strong highlights to marbled designs on paper, wood, fabric and other prepared surfaces.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Orange is a water marbling paint for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The warm Orange shade adds energy, contrast, and bold accents to marbled designs on paper, wood, fabric and other prepared surfaces.
The DecoArt Water Marbling Rake – Wide Spaced is designed with stainless steel teeth set far apart, ideal for creating traditional marbling patterns such as zig-zag and palms with control and stability.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Tropical Blue 59ml is a water marbling paint designed for traditional marbling techniques, creating bold, flowing patterns on a variety of surfaces.
Explore the art of water marbling with the DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Set – Primaries. Ready-to-use acrylic paints with precision dropper tips and a water thickening medium for creating unique, one-of-a-kind marbled designs on water.
The DecoArt Water Marbling Magic Medium 175g prepares water for the traditional marbling technique. When mixed with warm water it creates the correct consistency for DecoArt Water Marbling Paints to float and spread evenly across the surface. This allows you to create unique marbled patterns and transfer them to paper, fabric or objects with controlled and beautiful results.
DecoArt Water Marbling Cleaning Paper consists of absorbent sheets designed to remove leftover paint from the water surface, helping you start each marbling print with a clean base.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Green is a water marbling paint designed for traditional marbling techniques, allowing the color to float on water and transfer onto multiple surfaces while creating organic, nature-inspired patterns.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Violet is a water marbling paint designed for traditional marbling techniques, creating deep, expressive patterns on a variety of surfaces.
The DecoArt Water Marbling Standard Comb – Fine Spaced is designed with closely spaced stainless steel teeth, ideal for detailed, repeatable, and traditional water marbling patterns.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint White is a water marbling paint for traditional marbling techniques, where color floats on water and transfers onto multiple surfaces. The White shade is essential for contrast, clean veins, and bright, balanced marbled designs.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Light Blue is a water marbling paint that creates soft, airy patterns, perfect for light backgrounds and balanced color combinations.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paint Aquamarine is a water marbling paint designed for traditional marbling techniques, creating flowing, organic patterns that can be transferred onto a wide variety of surfaces.
DecoArt Water Marbling Paper is specially treated bright, smooth 32lb paper designed to lock in marbling colors and deliver vibrant, clean prints without any additional preparation.
The Holbein Traditional Japanese Menso Brushes are part of Holbein’s traditional Japanese brush line and follow the classic Menso design philosophy: clean, continuous lines with maximum control.
Crafted with natural Kolinsky sable hair, these brushes feature sharp points, excellent spring and reliable liquid retention. Each size offers a different balance between line fineness and paint capacity, allowing artists to choose the tool that best suits their technique.
Menso brushes are ideal for detail work, outlines, illustration and calligraphy, working equally well with watercolor, gouache and ink.