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  2. Iron gall ink - Wikipedia

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    Iron gall ink (also known as common ink, standard ink, oak gall ink or iron gall nut ink) is a purple-black or brown-black ink made from iron salts and tannic acids from vegetable sources. It was the standard ink formulation used in Europe for the 1400-year period between the 5th and 19th centuries, remained in widespread use well into the 20th ...

  3. Fountain pen ink - Wikipedia

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    The ideal fountain pen ink is free-flowing, free of sediment, and non-corrosive. These qualities may be compromised in the interests of permanence, manufacturability and in order to use some widely available dyes. [4] A form of ink that predates fountain pens by centuries is iron gall ink. This blue-black ink is made from iron salts and tannic ...

  4. Pounce (powder) - Wikipedia

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    Pounce is gently sprinkled all over the writing on the paper. When using a quill or a steel nib, and with inks that are made up to match those typically in use during the 18th and 19th centuries, and provided the pen has been used with the fine strokes typical of handwriting of that period, the handwriting will be sufficiently dry within 10 seconds to allow the paper to be folded without blotting.

  5. Stark's ink - Wikipedia

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    This iron gall ink recipe is taken from the Household Cyclopedia of General Information, published in 1881. It is not in common use now, though the preparation of inks with similar methods was common at one time. Recipe for one imperial gallon (4.5 L) of ink: 12 ounces (340 g), nut-galls; 8 ounces (230 g), sulfate of indigo; 8 ounces (230 g ...

  6. Ink - Wikipedia

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    However, iron gall ink is corrosive and damages paper over time (Waters 1940). Items containing this ink can become brittle and the writing fades to brown. The original scores of Johann Sebastian Bach are threatened by the destructive properties of iron gall ink. The majority of his works are held by the German State Library, and about 25% of ...

  7. Dip pen - Wikipedia

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    It can use waterproof, pigmented, iron gall ink, particle-and-binder-based inks, such as India ink, drawing ink, and acrylic inks with ease; while fountain pens generally must use water based inks, require thorough and frequent cleaning to prevent clogging when used with pigmented or waterproof inks and may corrode when used with iron gall ink ...

  8. Fountain pen - Wikipedia

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    A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use.

  9. Talk:Iron gall ink - Wikipedia

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    4 Photo illustrating damage caused by iron gall ink. 1 comment. 5 Availability. 2 comments. 6 Torah. 1 comment. 7 "12th century" 3 comments. ... 13 sources of the ...