interesting claim by Winsor and Newton ...

March 16, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick,

Recently I splurged on a new 14 ml bottle of
India Ink (for signing prints).

I like the kind made by Winsor and Newton
(under four dollars Canadian at present), and
this time I got a product monograph to go
with it. I had no idea W&N claimed to have
'introduced' drawing ink. Here are some
excerpts from their brochure (verbatim
quotes):



Drawing Inks have been used by illustrators
and designers since their introduction by
Winsor & Newton in the 1890's....


.... The inks are made from soluble dyes
combined with shellac binder, which imparts
the water resistant characteristic and also
gives a gloss finish when applied thickly.


The colour is ready to use direct from the
bottle but may be diluted with water to
reduce strength or increase transparency. It
is however important to use distilled water
to avoid the dye separating from the binder.


Because Drawing Inks contain dyes, they do
not possess the lightfast properties of
pigmented colours and should not be used in
work which is intended for display in lighted
areas. The exceptions to this statement are
blacks and white, which are pigmented and
Gold and Silver which are metal based.
Although metallic colours are lightfast they
may show tarnishing in the long term.



regards,
--le
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