Veinleaf

Marbled paper, pulled by hand.

A marbling tray on your iPhone. Drop paint on the surface, draw a comb through it, tip the phone to let it drift — then lay a sheet of the size you need and lift it off. What comes up is a print-ready A5 or A4 file, a square, a seamless tile or your own wallpaper, and nobody else has the same one.

Coming to the App Store

Who it is for

For people who make things: a notebook that needs endpapers by tomorrow, a zine cover, gift wrap, a card. Real marbling needs a size bath, alum, ox gall and a table you can spill on. Stock patterns from the internet are the same for everyone. Veinleaf sits between the two.

What it does

Paint that pushes back

Each drop spreads and squeezes the older rings into thin veins. The maths keeps every colour's area, the way paint behaves on liquid.

A marbler's tools

Stylus, rake, comb and a wavy peacock comb. Tilt the phone and the surface drifts downhill.

The pull

Lay the sheet with one sweep. Rush it and you trap air bubbles; pause and a faint line stays where you stopped.

The ghost

The first sheet lifts most of the pigment. A second pull from the same spot comes up pale, just like at the bench.

Print-ready files

PNG at 300 dpi, or a vector PDF for A5 and A4 with 3 mm bleed and crop marks if you want them.

Nine classic recipes

Stone, Italian Vein, Gel-gel, Chevron, Nonpareil, Peacock, Bouquet, Bird Wing and Snail, played step by step. Stop anywhere and carry on by hand.

Your sheets stay yours