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Ink

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Dark fluid for writing and printing. Not iron-gall-ink as one recipe alone, and not dye as cloth colour.

  • Ink is historically related to Iron gall ink.

    Moxon’s printing and writing craft speech seats iron-gall recipes among inks used for durable black writing. A named ink beside iron-gall-ink as a chief historical recipe, not dye as cloth colour and not lampblack alone.

    from Joseph Moxon · Mechanick Exercises (Printing), 1683–1684

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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