Black Genuine Soot Ink 702 Black

Black Genuine Soot Ink 702 Black

Worthy of our art, we have made an Ottoman soot ink composed of water, soot, and gum arabic, pounded for hours. In its flow, its blackness, and its performance on the muraqqa, it has turned out to be an ink of fine art quality. We present it to the appreciation of all our fellow artists...

Why should you use the soot ink we produce?

Inks all over the world are made with the same pigments; however, what determines the type of an ink is the binder added to it (plant-based binders such as gum arabic / acrylic binders / animal-based binders). For example:

1.    In Japanese ink, animal gelatin is used as the binder, and it is very glossy. It was made for writing with the traditional pointed brush of Asian countries and is suited to the Chinese and Japanese alphabets.

2.    Schmincke-style inks, on the other hand, are made with acrylic chemical binders. In particular, a high amount of chemicals is mixed into them so that they can be sprayed through the fine, millimetric nozzle of an airbrush gun, and they are absolutely unsuitable for practicing our art.

3.    In soot ink, our Ottoman ancestors used gum arabic as the binder, and there is a wisdom behind this. Apart from our traditional soot ink, it is the mixture of water, soot, and gum arabic that allows the delicate and geometric details of the letters to be written in the sharpest way. But among the binders we have listed, gum arabic is the one that mixes with water and soot with the most difficulty and needs to be pounded for the longest time.

After the Ottoman period, no quality soot ink could be produced in Turkey. For our fellow artists, we have produced for you a deep matte black soot ink that is the most homogeneous, of fine art quality, and pounded for hours