Method for making inkpad

Materials: castor oil 60g, scarlet (or magenta, Huang Dan) 1 1g, clay (finely ground and sieved) 10g, mugwort leaf 10g (that is, mugwort leaf is dried, hard stems are removed and rolled into fine hairs by machinery), and borneol/kloc-.

Method: Put all kinds of raw materials into a cylinder in the order of the above formula, stir them with a wooden stick first, and then roll them repeatedly on a rolling mill to form muddy inkpad.

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A sign of good inkpad

1, whether there is oil leakage. Oil permeability and impermeability are the basic characteristics that distinguish calligraphy and painting inkpad from ordinary office inkpad, which need to be compared by looking at inkpad. In fact, there is no oil-tight inkpad, especially when it is hot in summer. However, the stamp pad of calligraphy and painting cannot have obvious extravasation and bleeding at the same time, otherwise it is not available.

2. Dry and wet use. Generally speaking, small seal script should be dry, seal engraving should be dry, big seal script should be wet, Chinese painting should be wet, and calligraphy should be moderate. This dryness is relative, which can be judged by the hardness of the touch when buying (basically, different batches of the same variety of inkpad will have differences in dryness and wetness).

3. Big and small. Because the specific gravity of cinnabar is 8 times that of water, and the specific gravity of general pigments is much smaller, pure cinnabar or cinnabar with higher specific gravity is smaller under the same weight.

4. Shielding: the wok is covered with ink, and the excellent inkpad has good hiding power. Put the paper under strong light, even if the inkpad is red, the inkpad you see is dark gray, which is opaque because of its good shielding.