墨ができるまで。日本で1400年前から作られてきた墨の製造工程。

Yeah - a bit of carbon black - Cough, Cough, Cough - Up comes my arsehole....

Close... gotta watch real careful.... Carbon Black (pigment) and Gelatin ( emulsifier and binder ) = Ink Sticks. I have reverse engineer all of that for writing sheet music in extremely BLACK ink on white paper... Made up my own blocks...... Trouble is that say like 1 gram of solid ink = 8 or 12 grams of ink in a ball point pen = staggering amounts of writing.... The asians - going right back to painting in caves 14,000 years ago etc., have been writing with brushes so they use lots of it - say compared to a dip pen.... but it's extremely fine ink - as in the contrast between absolute black and very white paper - it's brilliant. So the Japs and other people who use the solid block inks and brushes - one brush stroke say 12mm wide = 0.3mm wide ink line from a nib = 36 strokes with a dip pen, enormous amounts of writing for dip pens from ONE giant say 500 gram block of sold ink......

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: a weird type of ink i guess, almost reminds me of the stuff in pencils in way... would be nice if there was translation explaining the process and some of the ingredients.

Watch the video again - when they get to the testing of the ink blocks - watch what they do with it....

Watch from 11 minutes onwards.

@sbseed: Watch the video VERY carefully - ALL the information is in there.... Look for the hot mixed gelatin going in....

Technically this is the same as making clay bricks - and aside from the need to slow dry them so they don't crack, they could be continiously cast by milling and extrusion, roll stamped and cut, and come out exactly the same. All of this is, is a lot of multiple handling and a lot of fucking around - it does not make the ink blocks any better, only way more expensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjx5KLRTeLg