Kölner Miniatum Ink has been specifically designed as an enhancement to Kölner Miniatum. It is a synthetic size in ink form that is suitable for applying gold and silver leaf, allowing for shiny but non-polishable metallization.
With Miniatum Ink, your creative possibilities are limitless. You can use various drawings to create intricate scriptures and designs featuring raised gilding with the finest lines in gold or silver leaf. Combined with Miniatum, you can achieve a wide range of calligraphic leaf gildings.
The metallizations produced with Miniatum Ink are visually striking and durable. They adhere permanently to the elastic film, so you won’t have to worry about cracks or flakes forming, even when turning the pages of a book. It is recommended that the product be tested on materials other than paper. Note that plastics should not contain plasticizers, which may dull previously high-gloss metallizations.
Miniatum Size Application:
- Miniatum Ink is used undiluted at room temperature between 15 and 22 °C, with writing and drawing feathers, brush, an ink pen, and a fountain pen or a drawing pen.
- The Art Pen has been proven to be especially handy, not only because you can easily change the nib but also because the ink converter allows regulation of the amount of ink.
- The converter is also easy to clean since it can be disassembled into individual components. Miniatum Ink can easily be kept in a closed fountain pen for several days. If glueing still disrupts the writing with the fountain pen, cleaning the feather with water suffices.
- After emptying the writing tools, please rinse them thoroughly with water and keep them filled with water until the next use. All other writing tools should be cleaned with water immediately after use and dried afterwards.
In general, a single ink application is sufficient. With strongly absorbent papers, a second or third application might be necessary. Miniatum is best applied to wide areas. - The ink must dry thoroughly before applying the transfer gold (the same as for Miniatum). The average application has dried after about half an hour. The open time of gilding (gold or silver leaf, not composition leaf) is 3 hours after the application has dried.
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