[Ravensfort] Ink recipe

[James Northfolke]

very cool

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jacinth de Warwick <jaycinth2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you like that, you may appreciate these:
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> How to make ink (The Ink Corrosion Website) --
>     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink.html
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> Excellent recipes with pictures:
>     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink_recipes.html
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> They also have some historic recipes of ink here:
>     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink_history.html
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> I really recommend going over all the site, but those are some pertinent highlights.
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> Then you also have a nice pigment paper here:
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> Common Medieval Pigments --
>     http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~cochinea/pdfs/a-baker-04-pigments.pdf
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> Cheers,
> -J.
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> --- On Fri, 1/15/10, James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Ravensfort] Ink recipe
>> To: "Ravensfort" <ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 1:32 PM
>> I thought this was cool-j
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>> From Drawing magazine: New York artist Karen Gorst, who
>> teaches medieval techniques of drawing and calligraphy,
>> offers her formula for making ink:
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>> 3 parts boiled oak galls
>> 2 parts ferrosulfate
>> 1 part gum arabic
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>> Boil the oak galls and water to the consistency of tea and
>> let sit for 2 to 3 weeks to ferment.  Add ferrosulfate
>> and strain liquid this should turn black immediately.
>> Add gum arabic.
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