Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Ink - Black / Colour (30ML, Up to 18 Colours) [Per Bottle]

• High quality pigments that preserve your work.
• Brilliance of Colour - All the inks have been formulated with carefully chosen pigments to ensure maximum brilliance of colour. Single pigments have been used wherever possible to make clean colour mixtures.
• Permanence - Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Inks have been formulated to provide the artist with an unrivalled level of permanence and quality. All the Calligraphy Ink colours have a permanence rating of AA or A.
• Usage - For best results, use with either a brush or a dip pen. You can also reactivate the inks with water.
• Formulated with carefully chosen pigments to ensure maximum brilliance of colour
• Blue Capped bottles contain thinner, more transparent inks with a satin finish.
• Red-capped bottles are opaque and should be used with a dip-pen or brush
• Have a permanence rating of AA or A
• Can be applied using fountain pen, dip pens, technical pen and airbrush
• Non-waterproof ensuring good flow characteristics to lessen clogging

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Inks

Calligraphy - meaning the art of beautiful writing, has been used in various forms since ancient times. From ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, calligraphy was seen as both a skilled art and the main source of written communication and expression until the invention of the printing press. Calligraphy today is increasingly popular and is enjoyed by professional and amateur artists from all over the world.

Winsor & Newton have used their expertise in the production of fine inks since the 1890s to create a wide range of colours which are brilliant and lightfast, allowing today's calligraphers to continue to create this important and flourishing art form.

Brilliant Colours

The inks have been formulated with carefully chosen pigments to ensure maximum colour brilliance. Single pigments have been used where possible to enable clean colour mixes.

Permanence

Winsor & Newton Calligraphy Inks have a permanence rating of AA or A, but are not waterproof.

Flow

The Inks are non-clogging and have good flow characteristics when used in fountain or dip pens. We recommend that you test the inks with your chosen pen to ensure optimum performance.

Paper for Calligraphy Inks
For practice work with Calligraphy Inks, layout paper is recommended. For finished pieces, any paper that will not feather, bleed, scratch or wrinkle is suitable. Smooth Cartridge paper or hot pressed water colour paper will allow a pen or brush to move evenly and smoothly over the surface with minimum breakage.  However, rough surface papers will also give a broken effect and ragged edge to the pen or brush stroke which may be desired by some Calligraphers.