Pilot Iroshizuku
murasaki-shikibu
As always great performing ink, the dry times are about average, not an overly wet ink but far from dry. In a large nib this stuff will shade like nobodies business. I paid $23.00 Can shipped off of ebay, at $.046 cents a ml, this is far from the cheapest ink on the market, and the beauty bottle is certainly part of what you are buying, but the inks seem to have their own feel and look to them being unique to the market that the odd bottle doesnt seem to me to be out of line.
Iro ink actually dries for me on my paper on the quicker side of average, it actually behaves well enough to be an everyday ink. Although its price will probably not have me burn through it that fast.
There is certainly a difference with each stroke on the QTip, this ink can shade, its a low saturation ink which can still pop some colour on the page without being washed out to much.
And excuse my lack of Japanese, but the bottle is either recyclable, or drinking the ink will have you flying to the toilet,... its a close call either way its good advice to know.
murasaki-shikibu
As always great performing ink, the dry times are about average, not an overly wet ink but far from dry. In a large nib this stuff will shade like nobodies business. I paid $23.00 Can shipped off of ebay, at $.046 cents a ml, this is far from the cheapest ink on the market, and the beauty bottle is certainly part of what you are buying, but the inks seem to have their own feel and look to them being unique to the market that the odd bottle doesnt seem to me to be out of line.
Iro ink actually dries for me on my paper on the quicker side of average, it actually behaves well enough to be an everyday ink. Although its price will probably not have me burn through it that fast.
There is certainly a difference with each stroke on the QTip, this ink can shade, its a low saturation ink which can still pop some colour on the page without being washed out to much.
And excuse my lack of Japanese, but the bottle is either recyclable, or drinking the ink will have you flying to the toilet,... its a close call either way its good advice to know.
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