Inkmaking

  It is hard to run a printers' without copious quantities of ink. Thankfully, almost any plant-based dye can be used as ink, and almost any plant can be a plant-based dye. Just make a thick, thick tea out of it, filter, and then boil it down until it's almost nothing. One can even dry it to bricks for later use. Soot and other colorants have also been used, and there are recipies which use various hide and soot glues as a binder, though they're not absolutely required.



  The main question, then, is what color ink one wants.

Black/Brown :
Coffee, tea, black walnut hulls, acorn shells, soot, iron (II) oxide, onion skins, oak gall.

Yellow/Brown :
Marigold, chamomile, goldenrod, yarrow, chestnut hull, turmeric, pomegranate rind,

Purple/Black
Blackberry, blueberry, red cabbage, most pink/blue flowers

Red
Teak, madder, noni

  Again, just boil the heck out of the tea (except in the case of berry-juice dyes), and it should provide a viable ink, as well as being a nice fabric dye.

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