ink
China
Source: Staack, Thies (2023), ‘Bindings of Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wood Scrolls’, in Jörg Quenzer (ed.), Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 25), Berlin: De Gruyter, 39–54.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
ink
Preparation Steps
The ink was applied with a brush to bamboo and wood surfaces (p. 40). Sequence numbers were specifically applied to individual slips with brush and ink, likely before or after the main text and before the binding of the scroll (p. 47).
Original Recipe Text
The ink was applied with a brush to bamboo and wood surfaces (p. 40). Sequence numbers were specifically applied to individual slips with brush and ink, likely before or after the main text and before the binding of the scroll (p. 47).
Evidence
"Brush and ink were presumably already being used to write on bamboo and wood at this point, because these materials would no doubt have been both widely available and inexpensive."
Remarks
Ink was used to write on bamboo and wood as early as the late second millennium BCE, as evidenced by 'oracle bone' and bronze inscriptions (p. 40). In some cases, sequence numbers were written on the back of slips or near the nodes of bamboo (p. 47-48).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
close observation
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
RegionChina
Approx. Year-550
Source Information
AuthorStaack, Thies
CollectionNorthwest China
Language
N/A
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