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Antique Victorian Make Ink Making Recipes Book 1900!


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Antique Victorian Make Ink Making Recipes Book 1900! $12.99

Victorian ~ Edwardian Era Writing Ink Recipes

Over 50 Recipes and Methods!

Spiral Bound Book Republication™

Originally Published c1900!

 

Up for bid is another marvelous Dakota Prairie Treasures Spiral Bound Book Republication™ of our original Victorian Era " Writing Ink Recipes!" There are about 50 Recipes and Instructions for making a wide variety of Victorian Era Inks! A very insightful and quaint peek into the Victorian family and household life style!

What a great item for your historical reenactment or recreating pleasure, for gift-giving occasions or just because you love to make the very best... YOUR OWN Victorian Era Writing Ink Recipes!

This HISTORIC item includes detailed instructions, recipes and ink making techniques to make the lovely homemade household inks like your great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers did! (Original is NOT for sale)

 

Our new line of Spiral Bound Book Republications™ oh-so-conveniently lie flat while in use!

This is a unbelievably nice touch if you have every tried to read a pattern's instructions while your hands are full of your in progress project. As an avid needleworker myself my personal experience prompted my choice of spiral binding for it's ease-of-use alone. I bet you'll love it too!

 

*** Producing the best CD & Spiral Bound Book Republications for you since 1999! ***

 

This is certainly a fine source of historically valuable techniques and inspiration for the creative ink making artists who desire to study and recreate the Victorian and Edwardian Era  ink making techniques! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful arts and crafts instructional revealing our heritage from early America and European cultures!

 

CONTENTS

Writing Ink

Ink

To Make Black Ink

Good Homemade Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Recipe #4

Recipe #5

Recipe #6

Recipe #7

Recipe #8

Recipe #9

Chrome Logwood Inks

("have no sediment, do not corrode steel pens, and do not turn moldy...Writing done with them may be soaked in water without the ink running or washing off."

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

("large scale" batch)

Recipe #4

("small scale" batch)

Copying Inks

Recipe/Method #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Recipe #4

Marking Inks

Marking Inks

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

India Ink

What it is and how applied

To Test Quality of India Inks

Substitute for India Ink

Recipe #1

Indelible Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

How to Apply Indelible Ink to Linens

Method #1

Method #2

Mordant Recipe

Black Stencil Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Colored Inks

Colored Writing Inks

Red Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

("large scale" batch)

Recipe #4

("small scale" batch)

Blue Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Recipe #4

Violet Ink

Recipe #1

Green Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Recipe #4

Yellow Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Show-card Inks

Recipe #1

How to Make a Show-card Inking Permanent

Gold, Silver, and Bronze Inks

Special Inks

Sympathetic Inks

"invisible until brought out by the effect of heat or some chemical"

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

Luminous Ink

"visible in the dark"

Recipe #1

Hectograph Ink

Recipe #1

How to Make a Hectograph Pad

(to make multiple copies of a document, etc.)

Rubber-stamp Ink

Metal-label Ink

Recipe #1

Recipe #2

Recipe #3

Recipe #4

Care of Ink

To Prevent Mold in Ink

Method #1

Method #2

To Prevent Ink from Thickening

To Keep Ink from Freezing

To Restore Faded Ink

Method #1

Method #2

To Remove Oiliness from Ink

Method #1

Method #2

Printer's Ink

Colored Printing Inks

Bronze and Other Metallic Effects

Printing Ink

Dryers for Printer's Ink

Lithographic Ink

To Remove Ink Stains

For a Logwood Ink Stain

For an Iron-gall Ink

Steps to Test What the Ink Contains

On White Fabrics

For Colored Fabrics

 

What a historically educational and delightful instructional antique ink making piece this is!

The ladies and gentlemen of earlier times put their hands to such marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautifully useful ink making recipes for you and yours! These instructions are very clear and easy to follow and yet the experience ink maker will be capable of altering as per individual needs and artistic whim.

The antique and vintage ink making equipment ingredients might be found on eBay. You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, of course, you can utilize contemporary tools and materials found at a nearby fabric, craft or hobby store.

The Spiral Bound Book Republication™ you will receive is representative of the types of handicraft expertise of earlier genteel and feminine American and European culture! If you're into nostalgia like I am you will have many hours of enjoyment recreating antique needlework items for yourself or others dear to your heart just the way your great-grandmothers did!

You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned at a high resolution and electronically revamped to provide you with the very best hardcopy reproduction. Unlike other reproduction sellers this is NOT a cheap, grainy photocopy! Our Spiral Bound Republication™ has so many more advantages over the original book.

 

What are the benefits of our antique book Spiral Bound Book Republications™?

* Our products are produced with front and back covers of heavy stock paper.

* Our products are made using the latest LaserJet printing technology meaning the ink will not smear like inferior photocopy or inkjet products do.

* Our spiral binding allows your book to lie flat during use for ease of viewing while working on your needlework projects.

* Our products do not cost a small fortune for you to obtain and enjoy.

* Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!

* These scans are enlarged to full-page dimensions for ease of viewing!

* You can gift these wonderful Victorian, Edwardian pattern book finds with family and friends!

 

Curious about the quality of this item? Please contact me and I will forward an image for your own personal inspection! You will appreciate the attention we have taken in providing you with a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that will be use for many years to come...

 

Check out Dakota Prairie Treasures' current auctions for many other unique needlework CD & Spiral Bound Book Republications™ for your creative needle working pleasure!

 

Payment: I prefer Paypal but also accept money orders or personal check.

 Shipping: Within the USA: $3.95 via USPS.  Out-of-country destinations (Canada included): $6.95 VIA USPS Air Mail. International buyers are responsible for their country's custom duties. We do not mark merchandise shipments as "gift" on the USPS Customs form. Insurance is optional and runs $1.35 per $50 increments per shipment. Combined shipping is available for all Dakota Prairie Auctions ending within 48 hours. A 50% s/h/p discount will be automatically applied to each item after the first purchase in all combined orders.

Copyright Restrictions: All Dakota Prairie Treasures needlework, design and/or other CD or hardcopy products produced by said seller are copyrighted and owned by us (as is all listing text and photos). Any descriptive text and trademarks provided by the seller in this listing's title, subtitle and description are the sole property of Dakota Prairie Treasures. All rights reserved. You are permitted to use our product's information for items you make for yourself, as gifts or for fully complete items you may produce to sell. However, the original designs and images remain the exclusive legal property of Dakota Prairie Treasures. Neither the DPT Product content or designs or images, or any part thereof, may be reproduced, used in class lessons or duplicated in any media format to be resold or "shared" (either individually or as a package or kit) without Dakota Prairie Treasures' prior written consent. Any and all violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Returns allowed due to manufacturing defects only.


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