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The Stringent Master of theAncient Marbling ArtAlparslan Babaogluby Ugur SEZENThe pioneering names that come to mind as for the art of marbling withinthe last 3 centuries have firstly been Sebek and Hatib Effendis, then thesheikh of the Osbeks Lodge Sadik Efendi and his son Hezarfen EdhemEfendi, Hezarfen Necmettin Okyay and his predecessor and student MustafaDuzgunman. We can even say that these are the only names to mention,since the fate of the marbling art has depended on only a handful of figuresat all times. Another figure who has been playing a role on the fate of thisart in our day is Alparslan Babaoglu. We interviewed with MR. Babaogluwho hosted us in front of his tray, on his teachers, his story of engagementin marbling, and the marbling art in the present day.Permit me, o’God!The history of most of our traditional arts date back to centuriesago. It is thus possible to find manuscripts in libraries,or masterpieces and murakkas in collections, which arerelated to these arts. The written authorisations, series orschools carry these arts such as beautiful calligraphy, illumination,miniature or book binding, to the present day. Theart of marbling, however, has been apart from all these artsin this regard. It has always been a bit more mysterious.Where it began to be performed, the etimology of its name,when and how it came to Anatolia, have always been controversial.Some, for instance, suggest that the word “ebre”in the Cagatay Turkish of the Central Asia became “Ebri” inIran, which means “cloudlike” in Persian, and turned into“ebru” in Anatolia. Yet others claim that the root of the wordis “ab-i rû”, which means “the face of water”, referring tothe dance of colors on water. Mustafa Duzgunman has confirmedboth these hearsays in his “ebruname”, which hewrites as if he is ornamenting water with colorful paints.Ebru means ebir, which means clouds in the sky,Also testify that Ab-i Ru, (the face of water) isone of its meaning.Ebru is also a Persian word which means eyebrows,In short, it can be granted any meaning,which gives it copious amounts of meanings.