Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s easy to see how one gets sucked into the swirls of suminagashi, the ancient Japanese marbling technique.

Suminagashi, which translates as “floating ink,” is the Japanese art of paper marbling. Learn to design elaborate patterns of colored ink, floating on water, which will be transferred to paper to ...

Many use holiday correspondence to stay in touch with faraway friends. Why not send your family news on a piece of hand-marbled stationery, using a technique called Suminagashi. "It means 'floating ...

About a year ago, Shivangi Gupta, a city-based advertising professional and artist chanced upon a work of Garip Ay, a Turkish artist who uses the traditional Ibru art form, which involves creating ...

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