Basic Permanent Black Ink
1)
Mix egg yolk, gum arabic and honey in a small bowl.
Prussian Blue Ink
Brown Ink
1)
Pour boiling water over the tea bags in a large bowl
GLOW-IN-THE-DARK INK
1)
Pour into a small bottle
Waterproof Ink
1)
In a small bowl, dissolve the powdered dye in about a tablespoon of the water.
Block Printing Ink
1)
On a sheet of glass, mix pigment with varnish thoroughly, using a palette knife.
To Use
Roll a brayer back and forth over the ink until it's tacky and the brayer is evenly coated.
Block Printing Ink For Fabric
5 Tablespoons Turpentine
1)
Pour the first 4 ingredients into an 8oz bottle and shake well.
Transfer Ink
2 Tablespoons Ivory Snow or Soap Bar Scrapings. DO NOT USE DETERGENT
1)
In a bowl, dissolve the soap powder in the hot water.
Stores indefinately in a covered bottle.
Dissappearing Ink
1)
Mash the laxative tablet into the tablespoon of alcohol.
Black ink
According to the most accurate experiments on the preparation of black ink, it appears that the quantity of sulphate of iron should not exceed 1/3 part of that of the galls, by which an excess of color matter, which is necessary for the durability of the black, is preserved in the liquid. Gum, by shielding the writing from the action of the air, tends to preserve the color, but if much is employed, the ink flows badly from quill pens, and scarcely at all from steel pens. The latter require a very limpid ink. The addition of sugar increases the flowing property of ink, but makes it dry more slowly, and frequently passes into vinegar, when it acts injuriously on the pen. Vinegar, for a like reason, is not calculated for the fluid ingredient. The best blue galls should alone be employed in making ink. Sumach, logwood, and oak bark, are frequently substituted for galls in the preparation of common ink. When such is the case, only about one-sixth or one-seventh of the weight of copperas should be employed.
Ink Powder
1 pound nut-galls
Pulverize and mix. This amount of ink powder will make 1 gallon of good black ink. Two or three powdered cloves should be mixed with each pound of powder, to prevent moulding.
1 egg yolk
1 tsp gum arabic
1/2 cup honey
1/2 tsp lamp black (buy in a tube or make by holding a plate over a lit candle, scrape off the black)
2)
Add lamp black to make a thick paste.
3)
Store in a jar.
To use, mix a little paste w/ a little water to make a fluid.
1)
Dissolve Prussian Blue (available as laundry bluing) in water.
Makes a rich blue ink.
1/2 cup boiling water
4-5 teabags (or 4 tsp of loose tea)
1 tsp gum arabic
2)
add gum arabic.
3)
Steep for 15 minutes.
4)
Squeeze teabags to extract as much tannic acid as possible.
5)
Strain and allow to cool before bottling.
Use with a paintbrush or quill pen, etc.
1 oz. oil of cinnamon
1/4 oz. phosphorous
2)
Close the bottle tightly and place in a hot water bath.
3)
Heat until the ingredients have melted together.
1 Tablespoon Powdered Clothes Dye
1 Tablespoon Glycerine
3/4 Cup Distilled Water
2)
Add glycerine and mix well.
3)
Slowly stir in the remainder of the distilled water.
This ink can be store & covered, indefinately.
3 Tablespoons Powdered Pigment
1 Tablespoon Clear Varnish
Powdered Pigment may be obtained at artist supply stores. To use this with rubberstamps, press the stamp into the ink on the glass and then print on paper.
Turpentine is toxic, keep this away from children!
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1 Tablespoon Oil of Cloves
1 Tablespoons Ivory Dishwashing Liquid
Oil Paint Pigments
2)
Use this solution to dilute the oil pigments to the consistancy of honey or thick cream.
3)
On a piece of glass, pour out a small amount and mix thoroughly with a palette knife.
4)
Using a brayer, roll back and forth until ink is a tacky consistancy.
Turpentine is toxic, keep this away from the kids!
Turpentine is toxic, keep this away from children!
1/4 Cup Hot Water
1 Tablespoon Turpentine
2)
Add turpentine and allow to cool.
If the ink becomes thick, set the bottel in a pan of warm water until it becomes liquid again. Shake well before using.
To use this ink; Brush ink over the back of the picture to be transferred. Wait about 10 seconds, place a clean sheet of paper over the picture and rub with the back of a spoon or a brayer. The picture will transfer to the clean paper. Transfer ink can be used with comic book pages, print out from dot matrix printers, some inkjet print outs,newsprint. You can also use it with magazine pages, but it takes alot of ink, and the results are unpredictable. You can transfer to fabric, but it is not a washable transfer! This works best with a newly printed page. Experiment!
Remember Turpentine is toxic!
1 Tablet Of Any Commercial Laxative
1 Tavlespoon Rubbing Alcohol
Cotton Balls
Household Ammonia
2)
Be sure the tablet is entirely dissolved.
To use:
Write a message on the paper with paintbrush dipped into the solution. As the solution dries, the writing will disappear.
To develop the message: dampen the cotton ball with liquid ammonia and dab it on the page. The writing will reappear.
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes. circa 1870
7 ounces copperas
7 ounces gum-arabic
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes. circa 1870