Brilliant beautiful DIY artsy people, how would you make ink?

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Yes, home made, using dried flowers as pigment. Hints on extracting the most color, what to mix with it for writing on paper (yeah, home made papyrus paper).

Thank you.

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Was I too vague?

Given you have a quantity of burgundy/black dried flowers, how would you make ink out of them?

How would you extract the pigment?

What would you use as a vehicle?

Answer 1

Boil flower heads and reduce to intensify dye effect in water or some other sovent eg wine. It is usual to have some form of gum in the solution to fix the ink when it dries.

Check out this site for ideas - and I guess experiment. http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/make_ink.htm... This uses iron and tannic acid but some of the principles may be useful.

Answer 2

boil them with very little water then strain

Answer 3

All of the mushrooms that deliquesce into a black goo make wonderful ink. Some produce better ink than others but they grow world wide. I want more info, a picture would help a bunch. I never make calls on edibles, too risky but ink and dye mushrooms.  How you doing?  RScott