Marbling Paper with Oil Paints | Teaching Chemistry (and more)

Man, how pretty is that?

I'm talking about the first half of the above video, during which Chris Rowlatt shows us how he produces marbled papers for eventual book binding. The marbling involves putting a nonpolar ink (or maybe dye, I'm not sure the technical distinction there) onto polar water. The two materials don't mix, so the nonpolar ink can be lifted from the surface of the water with paper.

The end product is gorgeous.

And it's been done in all sorts of places.

...paper making, lampshade dying, book repair...

...as therapy...

...or even in science classrooms...