Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Ink P0rn: Beautiful ink bottles

Since Zeynep from Write to me often! asked me to take a picture of the Octopus ink bottles I've gone through my inks and picked the bottles I like most for pictures. Enjoy!

Stipula Calamo Zafferano
 Sometimes bottles that have had an accident are the most charming. Those Stipula ink bottles are huge and made of brown glass. 

Iroshizuku tsuki-yo
I don't like wasting ink, especially Iroshizuku! But since it can't be made undone, I have to say it's a pretty great way to display the color. 

Octopus Burgunder (new style bottle) and Karamell

Here's two bottles of ink by new German brand Octopus. I like the large, pharmacy-style bottle the most, it's more unique than the Pelikan-ish bottles also used by Kaweco and Standardgraph. As ink-pens.com pointed out recently, the bottles are similar but not quite the same! 

Private Reserve Electric DC Blue and Montblanc Ink of Joy.

Crystalizing ink can be annoying but I like the vividly colored sediments some orange inks leave at the bottle threads.

Visconti blue (back) and aquamarine.

Old style Visconti glass ink bottles...! Always make me fear they might topple over while filling a pen... but beautiful. The new plastic ones can't compare, also the blue in the glass bottle is much more vivid then the one in the plastic bottle which is a subtle blue-black. Those two have different sizes, the larger one being their Aquamarine turquoise.
(By the way, I think I love that Florentine pattern more every day. Gorgeous colors. I will show it up closer sometime.)

Octopus Karamell and Pinie

... and some more Octopus bottles! Thanks again to Volker & Christiane for their gift.
Do you recognize the pen in front of them?

Besides: Wishing everyone a very happy New Year full of luck, happiness and good health!

5 comments:

  1. Wow very cool bottles and nice photogs. I have recently picked up a few vintage ink bottles from FleaBay to display on a wall shelf but even these modern bottles with the spills have awesome character. Thanks

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  2. Octopus pharmacy style bottle looks great! Those are the old ones? Would be a shame.
    The GvFC Pen of the Year 2004 is such a beauty.. Really jealous about that one! Pretty pictures as always! Great!

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  3. These are spectacular! YUMMY. Thank you :D I love that your ink bottles have ink all over them :)

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  4. I love the Iroshizuku photo - what a lovely blue. So much nicer than most boring blues. Fantastic photographs! Thank you for sharing.

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  5. I am an equal enthusiast of fountain pens and have quite a few ink bottles of various colors...when I was looking to put up a blog on the same subject...this stuff pops up....and it melts my heart.
    The blog photography is awesome and so is the content.
    My feedback will be to continue this and....please use a different theme...do some decorations....put this to the next level.

    I am blogger too...but I write on heavy music as in Metal.
    www.hardrockavenue.com

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