"Making marbled paper means going home each evening spattered in paint from head to toe, but the process is therapeutic and totally absorbing,"  says  Ann Muir, who started marbling in southwest England in l982. 

Ann opened her studio in 1989 in a converted cowshed in Somerset where she has made marbled paper for bookbinders, libraries and publishers around the world. She is largely self-taught, although exquisite papers and paints have long been her passion.

Recently, her close association with The British Folio Society has involved her in marbling the edges of 2,000 volumes of Johnson’s Dictionary,  "each weighing a stone!" and is now embarking on a rich gold, black, and red paper for a 40-volume set of The Works of Shakespeare to be printed in letterpress over the next five years. Film props have also used her paper,  "not least for the exercise books for a famous school of wizardry! "

Hollander's carries a wide selection of Ann's exquisite papers including many one-of-a-kinds that are available only on our website.