[Ravensfort] Ink recipe

[Jacinth de Warwick]

If you like that, you may appreciate these:

How to make ink (The Ink Corrosion Website) -- 
     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink.html

Excellent recipes with pictures:
     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink_recipes.html

They also have some historic recipes of ink here:
     http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink_history.html

I really recommend going over all the site, but those are some pertinent highlights.  

Then you also have a nice pigment paper here:

Common Medieval Pigments --
     http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~cochinea/pdfs/a-baker-04-pigments.pdf



Cheers,
-J.


--- On Fri, 1/15/10, James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> From Drawing magazine: New York artist Karen Gorst, who
> teaches medieval techniques of drawing and calligraphy,
> offers her formula for making ink:
> 
> 3 parts boiled oak galls
> 2 parts ferrosulfate
> 1 part gum arabic
> 
> 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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