Ink Ingot Making Method

The traditional ink-making process includes refining smoke, and material, making, drying, and tracing gold (ancient pine smoke ink-making diagram). Refining smoke, including oil smoke and pine smoke refining, to strictly control the fire, in and out of the wind, mastering the closing time, in order to ensure that the soot blackness, fineness, oil, ash; and material will first be gum with the fire simmering melting, into the pigmented raw materials and raw materials to add, fully stirred, pestle and mortar pounded uniformly, made of blanks; production of the bad material after repeated hammering and sticky moist, a variety of raw materials dispersed uniformly according to the specifications of rubbing the top of a seamless ink fruit, pressed into the ink mold; molding ink has a flat and put it into the ink mold. Pressed into the ink mold molding; molding ink is flat, into the ash, tie hanging three methods of drying. Flat drying of the initial period, the ink should be constantly turned, so that the drying contraction of the natural arching of the ink body to restore flatness. To strictly control the temperature and humidity of the ink drying environment, blowing wind, direct sunlight, baking, high temperature drying will lead to uneven analysis of the water within the ink and produce chaparral and fragmentation, excessive humidity will produce mold. After the ink is dry, according to the ink surface has the paragraph pattern of gold fill color. The color is mainly gold and silver, requiring bright, neat, uniform color layer.