HomeRegency LifeMaking Your Mark: When Ink was Made at Home, pt 1

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Making Your Mark: When Ink was Made at Home, pt 1 — 2 Comments

  1. I might have been tempted to try in my youth but I certainly wouldn’t have made my own ink nowadays! I was gifted with an expensive fountain pen while at school and loved using different inks. I preferred black to blue but occasionally used green. I found I wrote so much neater than with a biro.
    I haven’t heard of many of the ingredients mentioned and some sound definitely dangerous!

  2. I make inks from medieval recipes, for my scroll work in the Society for Creative Anachronism. I taught many classes in this historical re-enaction group, from quill-cutting to ink-making to pigment mixing. None of the ingredients are toxic, unless one is inclined to drink a tankard of the stuff. Otherwise, the ingredients are safe enough to let children make their own inks and pigments. I’ve not yet made any inks from the Regency period, but the recipes sound familiar. I’d love to meet others interested in the scribal arts.

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