![]() Writing and Drawing INKSĮxtremely rich, this black indian ink is manufactured with shellac gum giving unique brilliance, brightness and vibration under light. Hopefully with our vast product range you will be able to find the perfect ink for your all needs.ĪRTdiscount supplies to get you started INKS, Dip pens, Fine Liners. ![]() October is usually associated with Inks, this is the month where beginners, improvers and professionals revisit Inks as a medium to develop their skills, push creative boundaries and focus on this diverse medium. Ultimately we want our inks to maintain their colour vibrancy, dry quickly, be fade resistant and not smudge! Here at ARTdiscount we believe in quality products for our customers and can offer a great range of Writing, Painting, Crafting and Drawing inks! Right on time for October. All of the different formulas are conceived in an attempt to provide us with the most efficient Inks required for our own specific applications. When oils are used, inks will dry through air oxidation, and when alcohol is present the ink will dry through evaporation. Water, Alcohol, Wax, Linseed/ Flaxseed or Soybean Oils are ingredients commonly associated with modern day ink formulas. Today modern Inks are still made up of either a dye colourant, which dissolves in the ink or a pigment colourant which has been created organically or artificially, a solvent, the liquid to which the colourant has been added and a binding agent. Ink can be traced back over 40,000 years ago! The ingredients and recipes varied according to the particular time and culture and could include such things as lamp-black soot, plant mucilage, Octopus Ink, Cuttlefish ink, naturally occurring sulfide minerals such as Orpiment, (which was highly toxic!) Iron, Lead, Ochre, the roots or bark of plants, graphite, charred bone, and animal or fish glue/gelatin to name but a few! Historically Ink goes way, way back to the Ancient World and was used by the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, some also believe it goes as far back as the 4th century BC and was used by the ancient Indians!. ![]()
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