Pietro Accardi Bio

Pietro learned paper marbling more than 30 years ago in Italy, thanks to a German marbling kit that was donated to him. He is self taught meaning that he has learnt from millions of trials and errors. At that time he had a lot of space in the family printing press to make the first messy experiments. It was love at first sight: when graduating from a bachelor in Graphic Arts the subject of his graduation thesis was about applying the knowledge of scientific color theory in paper marbling.

He started using his marbled paper when working with the restoration of books for libraries. Pietro loves to teach and to share his knowledge. He has discovered that in sharing freely all the “secrets” of the trade, he has learnt, in return, so much from all his students…and he keeps on learning.