Marbled Monday at the State Library

Happy #MarbledMonday! Each Monday, libraries, archives, and personal collectors share examples of marbled pages found in their collections, and this week, we’re joining in the fun. Paper marbling is an aqueous paper design which is often found on a book’s end pages, fore edges, or covers. It has been used as book adornment for centuries, and we have many examples of it in our library collection, mostly dating to the mid-to-late 1800s. A few examples are included below:

You can search the #MarbledMonday hashtag on social media to see all sorts of beautiful examples, and learn even more in this blog post from the Carnegie Library. 

Elizabeth Roscio
Preservation Librarian