Gall ink - it-yourself kit with gall
Content:
* 100g dried oak apples
Galls are growths which occur on leaves, twigs and buds of certain species of oak.
Cause of the growths of the gall wasp oviposition, by which the plant tissue is stimulated to grow. Galle is a cover for a pre-growing wasp larva.
Gall-nuts are required for the production of iron-gall ink, which during the Roman antiquity, and of course later became known during the Middle Ages.
Production of iron gall ink:
1. The ground galls (50 g) are boiled in 500 ml of water.
2. The iron sulfate we make with old nails or screws and acetic acid.
3. As the binder gum arabic (20 g) is mixed. DONE!
The nails / screws in the box with the vinegar mix. Bubbles will rise and the iron work, after 3-4 days, the bubbles are less. Now pour the best way to through a coffee filter and finished our "iron sulfate. It later becomes Galläpfelsud and mixed the gum arabic.
This ink is initially only weakly colored, but by oxidation with atmospheric oxygen is the very durable, paint-like ink color, which darkens visible until it is almost black. Please use this only with ink pens (quill) or reed (calamus) use. Drag it never Filler up!
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