Kolner Miniatum Ink has been designed as an addition to Kolner Miniatum. It is a synthetic size in ink form for leaf gold and leaf silver for shiny but non-polishable metallization.
With Miniatum Ink, your creative possibilities are endless. The processing is carried out using various drawing supplements. Scriptures and drawings can be made with raised gilding of the finest lines in gold or silver leaf. In combination with Miniatum, all calligraphic leaf gildings are possible.
The metallizations created with Miniatum Ink are not just beautiful; they’re also durable. They permanently adhere to the elastic film, ensuring crack or flake formation is not a concern, even when you move a page of the book. The product should be tested on materials other than paper. Plastics can’t contain plasticizers because of the danger of ‘dulling’ 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 by Rotring 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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