Making pigment ink
Blue Ink
- Purchase laundry bluing, which can be found at stores that sells laundry detergent.
- Put some laundry bluing in a jar.
- Add enough water to achieve the color intensity you want. Your blue ink is now ready for use.
- Keep the jar tightly closed when not in use.
Black Ink
- Mix 8 ounces of honey with an egg yolk.
- Add 1/4 ounce of gum Arabic.
- Hold a plate above a lighted candle to make a black slick on the bottom of the plate.
- Add a small amount of the honey mixture onto the plate to collect the lamp black.
- Add this mix back into the rest of the honey mixture.
- To use as an ink, mix with a little water before use.
- Store it in a tightly closed jar.
Brown Ink
- Steep four tea bags in a half cup of boiling water.
- Thicken the tea solution with corn starch by boiling the mixture with a tablespoon of corn starch untill it thickens.

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