[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Aga Tentakulus]

Then a new scribe was hired - with new pen, new batch of ink, new handwriting, and he did not bother to finish that line and started from line 14.

   

It's not just the same ink, it's probably also the same nib and the same cut.

What you describe happens when the nib has not been treated properly. Especially degreasing.

Read and learn.

Hardening the quill
The quills are drawn, which gives them their proper hardness and removes the fat, using a very simple technique. Either warm ashes or glowing coals are used for this purpose. However, there must be no coals in the ashes, and they must be neither too hot nor too cold; in the first case, the quill softens too quickly and becomes tough instead of hard, as it then develops teeth when cut; in the second case, the quill either does not soften enough, or in most cases the heat does not penetrate all parts of the quill, and then it develops teeth again.

To write successfully with a goose quill, you need a writing surface with an angle of about 40-60% so that the ink does not drip too quickly from the pen.

If you can no longer see the difference between lead and ink, then it's better to leave it alone.
Your theory is far removed from reality.

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