Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking

<b>Imagine if the twigs, leaves, and bits of metal on the streets around you weren't waste but ingredients for a rich palette of unfolding color. Imagine that the oldest tool of communication—ink—could vibrate, grow crystals, or change color on the page.</b><br /><br />This is the world that Toronto Ink Company founder Jason Logan invites readers to discover in<i>Make Ink</i>. Part art book and part how-to,<i>Make Ink</i>is a color journey that redefines our everyday understanding of ink, and, in the process, teaches us to reclaim a lost urban wilderness. It's a journey that emboldens readers to get their hands dirty foraging for color in woodlands, back alleys, and city parks; mixing pigments in the kitchen; and testing out their homemade colors on paper in the studio. Clear step-by-step (and color-by-color) recipes draw on medieval alchemy, domestic science, and ecological cookery.<br /><br />Rebelling against the mass-produced ink of our industrial age, Logan's Totonto Ink Company makes small-batch inks that are sensitive to place and environment for fans and artists around the world. Featuring full-color artwork and handwritten notes from such collaborators as Dave Eggers, Margaret Atwood, and Marcel Dzama—as well as a conversation with international bestselling author Michael Ondaatje—<i>Make Ink</i>offers a new framework for thinking about the vital connection between ink, language, and art. It will change how you see and interact with the world around you.