Paper and Printing Recipes / A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades

by John Sawtelle Ford

Violet Ink.

To make violet ink:—Put 8 ozs. logwood into 3 pints of water, and boil until half the water has gone off in steam. The rest will be good ink, if strained, and supplemented by 1½ ozs. gum, and 2½ ozs. alum. Chloride of tin may be used instead of alum. Another plan is to mix, in hot water, 1 oz. cudbear (a dye obtained from lichen fermented in urine) and 1½ ozs. pearlash; let it stand 12 hours; strain; add 3 ozs. gum and 1 oz. spirit.