[HN Gopher] Iron Gall Ink
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       Iron Gall Ink
        
       Author : red369
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-09-09 00:10 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Loughla wrote:
       | I make this! (I got into making dyes for all natural tie-dye
       | shirts)
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       | It's cool and relatively easy, but it will eat your paper. It's a
       | cool novelty, but not for anything you want to store long term.
        
         | jgeada wrote:
         | Yes, iron gall inks are acidic and best not used on regular
         | paper. But they last pretty well on vellum (eg Book of Kells,
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells, on which all the
         | lettering is done with iron gall inks)
         | 
         | Lots of interesting discussion here:
         | https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/226717-archiv...
        
         | red369 wrote:
         | [delayed]
        
       | plorg wrote:
       | Maybe I was skimming too fast, maybe someone can answer here:
       | Historically oak or other galls were used as a source to produce
       | vegetable acids (tannic or gallic acid). I gather from the gallic
       | acid article that galls are easy to crush. Is this why they are
       | used rather than some other presumably more-readily-available
       | part of the tree? Is there something unique about the gall, e.g.
       | it contains more of certain chemicals/biomaterials?
        
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