Gum arabic - binder for inks
You cut in the bark one a downward angle. The exiting latex forms a drop with a diameter of 2 - 7 cm. This juice is collected, dried and crushed.
Content:
* 20g grated light powder
* Vegetable from the resin of shrubs
You cut in the bark up a downward angle. The exiting latex forms a drop with a diameter of 2 - 7 cm. This juice is collected, dried and crushed.
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 blisters less now best pour 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 do not take into filler, but ONLY write with pens (quills) or reed (calamus).
