![]() Then evaporate away the water in baleno mariae, and cast the remaining composition into leaden molds greased or make it up in any other form.” Add this mixture to the size while hot and stir the whole together till all the ingredients be thoroughly incorporated. Take then of Spanish liquorice one ounce and dissolve it also in double its weight of water and grind up with it an ounce of ivory black. ![]() “Take of isinglass six ounces, reduce it to a size, by dissolving it over the fire in double its weight of water. A substance, therefore, much of the same nature, and applicable to the same purposes, may be formed in the following manner. “The preparation of Indian ink, as well as of the other compositions used by the Chinese as paints, is not hitherto revealed on any good authority but it appears clearly from experiments to be the coal of fish bones, or some other vegetable substance, mixed with isinglass size, or other size and most probably, honey or sugar candy to prevent its cracking. “Indian ink is a black pigment brought hither from China, which on being rubbed with water, dissolves and forms a substance resembling ink but of a consistence extremely well adapted to the working with a pencil-brush, on which account it is not only much used as a black colour in miniature painting but is the black now generally made use of for all smaller drawings in chiaro obscuro (or where the effect is to be produced from light and shade only). Many of them are curious and are reproduced without any amendments. ![]() They can also be considered as object lessons which conclusively demonstrate the dissatisfaction always existing in respect to the constitution and modes of ink admixture. Those cited are exemplars indicating the trend of ideas belonging to different nations, epochs, and the diversity of materials. If assembled together they would occupy hundreds of pages. INNUMERABLE recipes and directions for making inks of every kind, color and quality are to be found distributed in books more or less devoted to such subjects, in the encyclopaedias, chemistries, and other scientific publications. “INDIAN” INK-SPANISH LICORICE-BITUMEN-CARBON FROM PETROLEUM-PROCESS TO OBTAIN GALLIC ACID-EFFECT OF SUGAR IN INK-DARK COLORED GALLS BEST FOR INK MAKING-SUBSTITUTES FOR GALLS-RELATIVE PROPORTIONS OF IRON AND GALLS-ANECDOTE OF PROFESSOR TRIALL-ESTIMATION OF SULPHATE OF COPPER-QUAINT INK RECIPE-RIBAUCOURT’S INK-HORSELEY’S INK-ELSNER’S INDELIBLE MARKING INK-BLACK INK FOR COMMON AND COPYING USES-COMMON BLACK INK-SHINING BLACK INK-PROCESS FOR “BEST” INK-INDELIBLE BLACK INK WITHOUT GALLS OR IRON-INK POWDER-STEEL PEN INK-SOME EARLY LITERATURE OF THE COAL TAR PRODUCTS-INK PLANT OF NEW GRANADA-“IMPERISHABLE” INK-FIRE-PROOF INK-“INERADICABLE” INK-EXCHEQUER INK-“PERMANENT” RED INK-SUBSTITUTE FOR “INDIAN” INK-TO PREVENT INK FREEZING-BACTERIA IN INK-GOLD AND OTHER INKS USED FOR ILLUMlNATING.
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