| Title | Information |
| Instructor | Pietro Accardi |
| Skill Level | Advanced |
| Length of Workshop | 1 day |
| Date(s) | Sunday, June 28, 2026 |
| Cost | $175 per day x 1 day + $45 material fee |
| Total Price of Workshop | $220 |
Workshop Description
This workshop is designed to provide students with a space to explore more of the marbling universe. Further complex patterns will be demonstrated.
Students will learn how to make and use metallic paint.
Students will execute some overmarbled paper, which are papers “printed” two times, creating complex visual patterns.
Prerequisites (participants should know how to):
- Prior marbling experience
Materials/Equipment to be Provided by Students
- Apron
- Comfortable shoes
See Materials Glossary for definitions and images
Materials/Equipment to be Provided by Instructor
- Primed paper
- Primed fabric
- Carrageenan
- Drying racks
- Trays for marbling
Instructor Biography
Pietro is native to the northwestern Italian city of Turin where his father Gaetano founded and operated a commercial printing press. His youth spent in the press led him to paper marbling, restoration, and bookbinding. After coming to the USA he started teaching paper and fabric marbling at the San Francisco Center for the Book and at the Nevada Museum of Arts in Reno. Together with his wife Vanessa he founded Accardi Book Arts: a book arts studio and bindery in Gardnerville, Nevada, to follow his passion of marbling fabric/paper and to preserve the tradition of handmade books and boxes.
