All set for #makingmedievalink (part of the Being Human festival) thanks to @sarajcharles 😺
Delayed start because Quality Control insists on inspecting and #helping
Getting rainwater for the ink. My winter plant store mewed at me in Benedictine #NotMyCat
Galls cronched, watered, stirred & resting
Galls cronched, watered, stirred & resting
Galls cronched, watered, stirred & resting
Galls cronched, watered, stirred & resting
Galls cronched, watered, stirred & resting
It really does smell like tea! #MakingMedievalInk
Letting it come to the boil for the length of three Paternosters and five feline Lamentations...
Bubbling merrily despite supervisory disapproval from the Wombat
Bubbling merrily despite supervisory disapproval from the Wombat
Bubbling merrily despite supervisory disapproval from the Wombat
Well, stone me. 100g zigackly #MakingMedievalInk
Straining the galls, then stirring in the VITRIOL #Black
Straining the galls, then stirring in the VITRIOL #Black
Straining the galls, then stirring in the VITRIOL #Black
Perfect quantities, thank you @sarajcharles 😺 Now for the gum arabic
Perfect quantities, thank you @sarajcharles Now for the gum arabic
Perfect quantities, thank you @sarajcharles Now for the gum arabic
Lots of stirring (it produces nice bubbles) then check the Black for blackness #NoneMore
Ink decanted!😺 I experimented with a straw - a partial success - then found I could tip the rest in from the glass without trouble. Fingers not too inky, but lower lip a bit off-colour #GnomeOfTheRose
Ink decanted! I experimented with a straw - a partial success - then found I could tip the rest in from the glass without trouble. Fingers not too inky, but lower lip a bit off-colour #GnomeOfTheRose
Ink decanted! I experimented with a straw - a partial success - then found I could tip the rest in from the glass without trouble. Fingers not too inky, but lower lip a bit off-colour #GnomeOfTheRose
That was the most fun I’ve had all year. Huge thanks to @sarajcharles of #MakingMedievalInk and Being Human. I shall do this again :))
Now for tea & cat-bothering, and to watch the video about applying the ink to vellum with a quill. Did I mention the toolkit included Actual handmade quill? And VELLUM? Shall post artistic hem-hem efforts here next week 😼
Now for tea & cat-bothering, and to watch the video about applying the ink to vellum with a quill. Did I mention the toolkit included Actual handmade quill? And VELLUM? Shall post artistic hem-hem efforts here next week
Now for tea & cat-bothering, and to watch the video about applying the ink to vellum with a quill. Did I mention the toolkit included Actual handmade quill? And VELLUM? Shall post artistic hem-hem efforts here next week
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