First English translation of the unique description of Japanese marbler Tokutaro Yagi's specific techniques for suminagashi-zome or "floating ink," the art of marbling on paper or silk by floating color--usually black, red, or blue-- on water and making it spread with a lacquer surfactant to form jagged flowing lines, often resulting in patterns from nature such as wood grains, water currents, or wind patterns in a rice field.

A genealogy of the ancestors of Patricia Bess Kelly Roberts born 15 Jan 1918 in Stockton, Calif. the daughter of Ralph Morse Kelly (1893-1960) and Eupemia Beecher. Patricia was adopted by her step father Laurence N. Roberts. Patricia married in 1937 Albert Wilson Roney (1913-1958) in San Francisco, Calif.