hobby #164
Natural Ink Making
Foraging and processing natural materials (walnut hulls, oak galls, iron-rich water, soot, berries) into permanent writing and drawing inks. Traditional iron-gall recipes, pH balance, archival stability testing.
Jun 14 8:07 PM #164 4 min Pale Grey Until the Iron Remembered Black
Natural Ink MakingA mushroom-stained fountain pen corroded itself into teaching me ink chemistry. The rain barrel turned out to be half the recipe.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Irreversible Transformations: Hash Functions and Iron Gall Ink Cryptographic Hash Functions