Category: Ink Review
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Ink Review: Sailor Onago Iro #02 Komorebi
Sailor Onago Iro #02 Komorebi is a Sailor made ink that is branded under Sailor (rather than a third party stationery store) and is sold from the Sailor Japan website. They don’t ship it internationally. I am told that Onago Iro translates into English as “girl colours” and Komorebi is the sunlight filtering through trees…
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Ink Review: KWZ Sheen Machine 2
KWZ Sheen Machine 2 Sheen Day is the second instalment in KWZ’s approach to super sheening inks. KWZ Sheen Machine (1) was the classic super sheening azure ink but with better writing characteristics and cleaner. KWZ Sheen Machine 2 shares those characteristics but is in now a rich teal inkThank you to Bookbinders Design for…
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Ink Review: KWZ Sheen Machine (1)
Released in the latter half of 2019, KWZ Sheen Machine was KWZ’s first contribution to super sheening inks, as the name would suggest. KWZ also released a sequel, Sheen Machine 2 “Sheen Day” earlier 2020.Thank you to Bookbinders Design for sending this ink out for review. Bookbinders were only recently able to stock this and…
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Ink Overview: Taccia Ukiyo-e Sharaku Tōshūsai inks (Kurocha, Akasakura, Koiame, and Natane)
Taccia are making a series of inks based on Japanese Ukiyo-e artists and selections of their works. The current two series are based on four works from Sharaku Tōshūsai (this series) which are portraiture works and the other series (which you can view here) is on four works from Hukusai Katsushika which are landscape works.…
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Ink Overview: Taccia Ukiyo-e Hokusai Katsushika inks (Benitsuchi, Koiai, Sabimidori, and Fukakihanada)
Taccia are making a series of inks based on Japanese Ukiyo-e artists and selections of their works. The current two series are based on four works from Hukusai Katsushika (this series) which are predominantly landscape works and the other series (which you can view here) is on four works from Sharaku Tōshūsai which are portrait…
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Ink Review Pen + Message Cigar
Pen + Message is a small stationery shop tucked away on a back street near Motomachi Station in Kobe, Japan. They sell a lovely small selection of inks, as well as a decent amount of different paper products and high end fountain pens. They’ve also been offering Sailor exclusive inks for a while now and…
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Ink Overview: Standard Bindery Original Fountain Pen Ink
Standard Bindery have now released their second set of inks for fountain pens. Their first set released by Standard Bindery, when they were named Bookbinders Online, was the eight Snake Inks (two blue, brown, green, orange, grey, black and red). The new formulation is something that Standard Bindering are pretty excited about and their most…
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Ink Review: Pennonia Vizlang (Vízláng)
Before Matt from Pennonia reached out to send me some inks, this ink was the one that first caught my attention – a pretty blue with shiny red sheen; why wouldn’t it? When the package arrived from Pennonia this ink and Pokoltűz were the inks I was most excited for! Both are permanent inks with…
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Ink Review: Van Dieman’s Ink Bonfire Night
Van Dieman’s Ink is an Australian two-person team ink manufacturer that somewhat new to the market who, like Robert Oster, started on eBay. They were the Jinhao Australia distributor back then and were branded as such but now they have broadened out to their own brand with a decently large selection of inks. There are…
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Ink Review: Hankyu Maroon
Hankyu Maroon is a Sailor made ink exclusive to the Hankyu Department Store. Hankyu Department Store, which separated from the Hankyu Railway Company in 1947, is a department store who’s main store is located in Osaka. It has further stores nearby and in other cities further away but the only place to buy these inks…