Gunnison Valley News | 1921-07-29 | Page 8 | India Ink Really Chinese Ink

India Ink Really Chinese Ink. The Intensely black Inks have various vari-ous sorts of finely divided carbon as their pigment, and the vehicle in most Instances is some type of oil or varnish. var-nish. India ink is the name often applied ap-plied to what Is In reality Chinese Ink. The best of this variety comes from the Annul province and Is made from the lamp black produced when wood oil Is slowly burned in one earthenware earth-enware vessel and the soot or lamp black produced is collected on the sides of a second jar placed above the first. A paste Is made with varnish and pork fat and this is then mixed with glue. Some ink is made from the soot of sesame or rapeseed oil, hut In any case the paste Is pressed into molds. There are. of course, many grades of this ink, the lower being made from the coarser soot and glue. In 1!1S the Chinese exported 127. 000 pounds of this ink. Scientific American Monthly.