marbleizes

Creates stone pattern

Marbleizes means gives something the appearance of marble, typically through painting techniques that create the veined, swirling patterns characteristic of the stone: She marbleizes the columns with layers of glaze.

The technique appears in bookbinding, furniture finishing, and decorative arts.

Paper can be marbleized by floating pigments on water and transferring the pattern.

technique

veining

Pattern of linear markings

streaking · dragging · texturing · patterning · finishing · glazing · coating · layering · blending · stippling

paper

bookbinding

Assembling pages into volumes

ink · bath · comb · stylus · pigment · Turkish · Japanese · printmaking · stationery · craft

culinary

chocolate

Sweet from cacao seeds

swirl · cheesecake · brownie · ganache · tempering · drizzle · decoration · piping · fold · ribbon

meat

fat

Adipose tissue

grading · USDA · prime · beef · steak · butcher · aging · quality · tenderness · flavor

Opposites
visual pattern/texture

marbleizeshomogenizes

Makes consistent throughout

flattens · blanks · whitewashes · primes

surface complexity

marbleizessimplifies

Makes less complex

strips · clears · neutralizes · minimizes

Family

marbleize, marbleized, marbleizing

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G