OT ink

[Ferrous Wheel]

Yeah, watch yerself. I read some lit by a guy who took Datura, and he was never the same. Really disturbing hallucinations, changed him in a bad way. One side effect was that he thought he was covered in thick fur...

Keith

 

[Nasty]

Shucks...I saw the title and thought this was about tattoos...

 

[clearblue]

Andreas--I got the impression that the ink oxidized and changed color once it was on the paper. I don't know if adding oxygen to the ink with a straw would work or not.

Clearblue--you're not thinking of ingesting that Datura, are you?

--Josh

The Devil's weed?Goodness NO!!!!Way too hard on the liver and way too much time to get back to baseline.

I do enjoy growing the plants for their potential and beauty tho.

Also got some chocolate Habanero plants about 7 inches high and looking good-just writing about'em makes the saliva start to flow.

 

[Josh Feltman]

Habañero peppers can also induce visions if you are not careful . Datura really is a beautiful plant. There used to be some huge Jimson weed plants growing right next to I-5 near Red Bluff. Always made me think of Castaneda and Georgia O’ Keeffe.

Andreas--Have you had a chance to try your hand at ink making? Please keep us posted as to your results. Here's another link about medieval ink.

--Josh

 

[ichor]

Hello,
I know some here are into medieval stuff and/or art (Ferrous, Sylvrfalcon (anybody heard from him), JOtto ...?), . As a last project with my 7th graders in the "special-history-course" (some results from last year here) I would like to do a paleographic workshop. I have all the alphabets used from latin Tiron´s notes to the handwriting of the humanists, will get the feathers of a swan, know how to make paper (pergament is a bit expensive...)...

- but does anyone know how to make ink with stuff that is affordable (for pupils) today?

until now I have found two:

lamp black and "gummi arabicum" ("arabian rubber(?)")

tannid, ferric(II)sulfate, water, oxigen (tannide may come from oak-apples, bananas, the rest can be done with iron nails and aceto balsamico - but it would be faster to take pure stuff from the pharmacy or the chemistry teachers).

both are black inks.

So I look for
1. other black inks easy to make
2. coloured inks for the capitals

Any help is appreciated - thank you!

Andreas

It is, of course, much more fun and interesting to hear all these great ink recipes from friends. Have you tried regular internet sources?

http://www.publicbookshelf.com/publ...edia_of_General_Information/howdoyou_ccj.html

http://pages.tipking.com/make/ink.shtml

http://www.clt.astate.edu/elind/inkmain.htm

http://pages.tipking.com/make/brown_ink.shtml

http://www.clt.astate.edu/elind/oldinkrecipes.htm