gallnut ink

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  • Berthe Morisot: The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne
    In drawing: Inks

    The manufacture of gallnut ink had been known from the medieval scriptoria (copying rooms set apart for scribes in monasteries). An extract of gallnuts mixed with iron vitriol and thickened with gum-arabic solution produces a writing fluid that comes from the pen black, with a strong hint of…

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