Shellac Ink Recipe 👉 Here is one recipe for a resilient blue indelible ink. So in case you are a vegan this is not a vegan friendly ink.
It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac which is used as a brush-on colorant food glaze and wood finish. Boil the whole in a closely covered tin vessel stirring it occasionally with a glass rod until the mixture has become homogeneous. Boil for a few minutes adding sufficient finely-powdered indigo and lampblack to color it.
Keep alcohol and liquid shellac away from open flame or burners.
Add a cup of distilled water and stir your ink with a popsicle stick until it forms a thick soupy wash. You can make them out of almost anything he says often using the most mundane of materials which he forages from right outside his doorstep in Toronto. Boil for a few minutes adding sufficient finely-powdered indigo and lampblack to color it. India Ink though does not exist in production like it did 25 years ago.