India ink
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India ink or China ink is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic st
A 14th century Han Dynasty medical treatise, the ink remains in excellent quality.
A solid ink stick used for the preparation of ink
Inkmaking from pine wood, as depicted in the Tiangong Kaiwu (1637)
Cryptococcus neoformans stained with light India ink
Inkstick
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Inksticks or ink cakes are a type of solid Chinese ink used traditionally in several Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian art forms such as calligraphy and brush painting. Inksticks are made mainly of so
India ink
…brush) or a dip pen. In East Asian traditions such as ink wash painting and Chinese calligraphy, India ink is commonly used in a solid form called an inkstick. Basic India ink is composed of a variety of fine soot, known as lampblack, combined with water to form a liquid. No binder material is necessary: the…
Commemorative Chinese inksticks for collectors
Colored inksticks, usually used as accents in Chinese painting
Image from the 17th-century technical document Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物) detailing how pine is burned in a furnace at one end and its soot collected at the other