A new batch of ink is completed and is awaiting the completion of the slow dehydration process in the oven. Unlike batch numbered 3, this ink has a very dark, stout character with a bit of shine. Batch 2 as you will recall seemed a bit timid and not quite as permanently impressed upon the paper fiber as I would have liked, though still quite usable.So, I should have a completely adequate supply of period correct 18th century ink ready for sale come Spring.
Packaging is set set, with instructions in both period and (inside) modern day wording.
Now, I await the return of Spring, the budding oaks, the busy wasps, and nascent galls ready to be turned into more ink . . .
3 March
ReplyDeleteDear Sir,
It is with great joy that I am able to respond to your post of this past 23 February. I am greatful to know that you have survived, yet, another Minnesota winter. I look upon this as having accomplished a tremendous feat, as I too have suffered through many a challenging winter there. I will be arriving to the headwaters, in only a few more days, where I shall hope to reunite with my Anishinabeg friends. I hope to take possession of my new canoe, for which I have prepaid my Ojibwe builders, quite handsomely, with rifles, munitions and other unmentionables. I am sure to be pleased with it's quality for I hear said, more often than naught, how this particular band is know for building a most steadfast vessel. I hope to collect, as well, a ready payload of beaver, rabbit, and with the grace of our Good Lord, much besides.
Until such time as we might meet face to face I bid you, my friend, a fond Farewell
Yours, in this spirit,
Davy B