Making ink like it’s 1795

Hello! I’ve been gone for a while and now I’m back! (thanks for sticking around!) I just moved across the country *again* and to celebrate my fickleness I’m putting down my Burgundian project for a while longer and making some historically inspired writing ink. These oak galls were foraged from a local park and they’re not the same ones that would have been used traditionally, so it was a bit of an experiment. Spoiler: it goes OKAY but not GREAT, but it wasn’t the gall’s fault. 00:01:17 about Iron Gall Ink 00:02:24 Galls? What? 00:05:14 Making the ink (steeping galls) 00:07:04 Making the ink (about green vitriol) 00:08:54 Making the ink (magic bit) 00:10:47 Voila ---- I’ve also r e b r a n d e d as Making History. I think I’ve outgrown Lydia’s Secret Sewage and I’m ready to expand beyond both the sewing and the secrets. I started this channel without telling anyone I knew as a way to indulge my budding hobby of historical recreation, but it turns o