Dyo
- ink
There are several recipes for making ink, though all seem to revolve around the same basic set of ingredients.
Chasdey David
writes how to make ink the easy way!
Ingredients:
3 grammes of
gumy-rabik
(gum arabic)
3 grammes of
afatsim
(gallnuts)
1 gramme of
kankantum
(vitriol - i.e. iron sulphate)
a quarter of a litre of water
Recipe:
Crush the gallnuts into a fine powder (basically this is tannic acid)
Mix all the ingredients together
Cook on an open flame until the residue is left
Strain out the larger lumps of gallnut
Leave for 6 months to turn black
Use as ink!
Below photos of the core ingredients, gallnuts, tannic acid, iron suphate and gum arabic. Photos © Mordechai Pinchas. Gum arabic Wikimedia commons.