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Marbled Monday

This week's marbling was found on the binding of a book we've posted about before: Root and Sky: Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry. The text was compiled and arranged by Charles E. and Jean G. Wadsworth with collagraph-intaglios designed and printed by Charles E. Wadsworth (1917-2002). Charles E. Wadsworth was a painter, printmaker, and poet who lived in Cranberry Isles, Maine with his wife, author Jean G. Howard-Wadsworth. You can learn more about the book in our previous post here.

The marbling is most closely resembles a traditional stone pattern, but does have some swirling or dragging done using a stylus. The main background is a creamy color, which looks darker in person than in the photos shown here. On top of that is green and black and grey, which are sort of swirled around a bit in an asymmetrical way. Finally there is a mushroom-y purple-y brown sprinkled on top and sometimes swirled into the other colors. It's a very earthy color palette, which compliments the muted mossy green cloth of the spine and slipcase.

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Battering the bare walls of the sun.

It is falling on the lounge of the blackbird,

Into the heart of the thrush; the dazed valley

Sings it down. Rain, rain on dry ground!