Diamine Grape

[vistafan]

Thank you for such a great review, Tawanda. Nice penmanship, by the way.

 

Do you have any idea how it compares to Imperial Purple??

[Mauricio]

Tawanda,

 

Thanks for your wonderful review. Great looking ink. Looking forward to its release.

[kronos77]

Not a great deal of shading? Looks like a whole lot to me. Is it just an illusion caused by my monitor?

[wastelanded]

Very juicy indeed, me gusta! Add to shopping list.

 

I find swabs almost impossible to gauge an ink's true colour, it has to come out of a nib to be truly seen. And this ink makes me want to make toast with grape jelly.

[Tiffanyhenschel]

I ordered a bottle of this the day it was available to Ink Drop members from the Goulets and have used it extensively this week. It is a definite everyday ink for me. I don't have DeAtramentis Aubergine, so I cannot compare it to that.

 

I do have Iroshizuku Murasaki, and I have letters written to me in Noodler's La Color Royale and Akkerman Parkpop Purple. Diamine Grape is duskier than all of those.

 

I also have a letter written in Imperial Purple. The color is similar, but the Grape seems to be a little wetter flowing and more saturated.

 

I have MB Lavender Violet and Iroshizuku Yama Budo. The flow is similar, but they both have more red, and the Grape has more shading.

 

It is similar to J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune and the swabs I have seen of Aubergine.

 

It flows. It shades. It flexes. It doesn't feather. It doesn't bleed through.

 

I love it.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Tiffanyhenschel

[DanielCoffey]

I was under the impression that Diamine Grape was not released until June first. I would be most surprised that Grape was what you got your hands on, Tiffany. Might be worth checking, especially since the Goulets have stated they are under order to hold their stock till June first.

Edited May 26, 2012 by DanielCoffey

[Tiffanyhenschel]

I was under the impression that Diamine Grape was not released until June first. I would be most surprised that Grape was what you got your hands on, Tiffany. Might be worth checking, especially since the Goulets have stated they are under order to hold their stock till June first.

 

It was a special offer only available to Ink Drop members. The bottle definitely says Grape.

[reval]

I ordered a bottle of this the day it was available to Ink Drop members from the Goulets and have used it extensively this week. It is a definite everyday ink for me. I don't have DeAtramentis Aubergine, so I cannot compare it to that.

 

I do have Iroshizuku Murasaki, and I have letters written to me in Noodler's La Color Royale and Akkerman Parkpop Purple. Diamine Grape is duskier than all of those.

 

I also have a letter written in Imperial Purple. The color is similar, but the Grape seems to be a little wetter flowing and more saturated.

 

I have MB Lavender Violet and Iroshizuku Yama Budo. The flow is similar, but they both have more red, and the Grape has more shading.

 

It is similar to J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune and the swabs I have seen of Aubergine.

 

It flows. It shades. It flexes. It doesn't feather. It doesn't bleed through.

 

I love it.

 

Thank you for your observations! I'll skip the sample vial stage. :-) The question is now: do I order 30 ml or 80 ml.

 

 

 

[pen2paper]

I ordered a bottle of this the day it was available to Ink Drop members from the Goulets and have used it extensively this week. It is a definite everyday ink for me. I don't have DeAtramentis Aubergine, so I cannot compare it to that.

 

I do have Iroshizuku Murasaki, and I have letters written to me in Noodler's La Color Royale and Akkerman Parkpop Purple. Diamine Grape is duskier than all of those.

 

I also have a letter written in Imperial Purple. The color is similar, but the Grape seems to be a little wetter flowing and more saturated.

 

I have MB Lavender Violet and Iroshizuku Yama Budo. The flow is similar, but they both have more red, and the Grape has more shading.

 

It is similar to J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune and the swabs I have seen of Aubergine.

 

It flows. It shades. It flexes. It doesn't feather. It doesn't bleed through.

 

I love it.

everything I hoped it Might do, thanks Tiffany.

now just need Lamy to fill the hole in the ABS line up.

 

 

 

[Tiffanyhenschel]

I ordered a bottle of this the day it was available to Ink Drop members from the Goulets and have used it extensively this week. It is a definite everyday ink for me. I don't have DeAtramentis Aubergine, so I cannot compare it to that.

 

I do have Iroshizuku Murasaki, and I have letters written to me in Noodler's La Color Royale and Akkerman Parkpop Purple. Diamine Grape is duskier than all of those.

 

I also have a letter written in Imperial Purple. The color is similar, but the Grape seems to be a little wetter flowing and more saturated.

 

I have MB Lavender Violet and Iroshizuku Yama Budo. The flow is similar, but they both have more red, and the Grape has more shading.

 

It is similar to J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune and the swabs I have seen of Aubergine.

 

It flows. It shades. It flexes. It doesn't feather. It doesn't bleed through.

 

I love it.

 

Thank you for your observations! I'll skip the sample vial stage. :-) The question is now: do I order 30 ml or 80 ml.

 

 

 

 

Go ahead...Order the 80 ml. You know you want to.

[Jimmy James]

Thanks for the review. It helped me put off this purchase, along with the review somebody else did of Sargasso Sea. Knowing this ink is close to Ebony Purple and that ink is at least relatively close to Majestic Blue tells me I can wait until I am buying other things to get them. I'm still excited by both and plan on getting both eventually.

[Ghost Plane]

Went straight to my "gotta have"

[goldiesdad]

Love the purple ... I'm looking into it now ... purple rain purple rain ...

[shaylenwilliams]

I was under the impression that Diamine Grape was not released until June first. I would be most surprised that Grape was what you got your hands on, Tiffany. Might be worth checking, especially since the Goulets have stated they are under order to hold their stock till June first.

 

It was a special offer only available to Ink Drop members. The bottle definitely says Grape.

 

How nice for InkDrop members... How unfair to the rest of us...

Were all of the new colors available, or just the Grape?

[Tiffanyhenschel]

I was under the impression that Diamine Grape was not released until June first. I would be most surprised that Grape was what you got your hands on, Tiffany. Might be worth checking, especially since the Goulets have stated they are under order to hold their stock till June first.

 

It was a special offer only available to Ink Drop members. The bottle definitely says Grape.

 

How nice for InkDrop members... How unfair to the rest of us...

Were all of the new colors available, or just the Grape?

 

All of the new colors were available, but I only bought the Grape.

[shaylenwilliams]

I was under the impression that Diamine Grape was not released until June first. I would be most surprised that Grape was what you got your hands on, Tiffany. Might be worth checking, especially since the Goulets have stated they are under order to hold their stock till June first.

 

It was a special offer only available to Ink Drop members. The bottle definitely says Grape.

 

How nice for InkDrop members... How unfair to the rest of us...

Were all of the new colors available, or just the Grape?

 

 

All of the new colors were available, but I only bought the Grape.

 

Thanks! I was curious!

[blazv]

As I posted before it was interesting to find my notes coming back quite a few shades closer to red when they passed through a series of hands back to me the next day. At first it was amusing, now it is beginning to unsettle me. One way or another, I'm through half a bottle (obviously this ink was offered for sale earlier in my locale and putting this ink in my wetter pens does help) and today I should do something else but remembering some secondary school chemistry tricks is waaay more fun:)

I took out some blotting paper, tap water, inks and a glass dip pen. The annoying red was found... Of course I went a bit too far and checked out some other ink color compositions as well. Sorry about the image quality. The best I could do...

Anyone else doing this to their inks?

 

[Laura N]

As I posted before it was interesting to find my notes coming back quite a few shades closer to red when they passed through a series of hands back to me the next day. At first it was amusing, now it is beginning to unsettle me. One way or another, I'm through half a bottle (obviously this ink was offered for sale earlier in my locale and putting this ink in my wetter pens does help) and today I should do something else but remembering some secondary school chemistry tricks is waaay more fun:)

I took out some blotting paper, tap water, inks and a glass dip pen. The annoying red was found... Of course I went a bit too far and checked out some other ink color compositions as well. Sorry about the image quality. The best I could do...

Anyone else doing this to their inks?

 

I have no idea what you did there, having flailed through high school chemistry myself. But your scans are really good, and that's interesting. I guess you are isolating the different dyes? Well done.

 

I'm intrigued to hear that the ink turns redder with time.

[blazv]

As I posted before it was interesting to find my notes coming back quite a few shades closer to red when they passed through a series of hands back to me the next day. At first it was amusing, now it is beginning to unsettle me. One way or another, I'm through half a bottle (obviously this ink was offered for sale earlier in my locale and putting this ink in my wetter pens does help) and today I should do something else but remembering some secondary school chemistry tricks is waaay more fun:)

I took out some blotting paper, tap water, inks and a glass dip pen. The annoying red was found... Of course I went a bit too far and checked out some other ink color compositions as well. Sorry about the image quality. The best I could do...

Anyone else doing this to their inks?

 

I have no idea what you did there, having flailed through high school chemistry myself. But your scans are really good, and that's interesting. I guess you are isolating the different dyes? Well done.

 

I'm intrigued to hear that the ink turns redder with time.

 

Thank you. You are right. I was attempting to do some basic paper chromatography. It should, essentially, reveal the different color components of inks. I have put some ink on lower parts of blotting paper cuts, then soaked lower ends in water and waited until the colors separated. Voilà!

As you can see the process could not finish with Oxblood - the dyes reached the top end (have repeated it twice, the second time with longer cut but the dyes still reached the top). Oh, well... A task for another time.

 

As for the ink turning redder with time: in my experience it depends on paper quality. On absorbent paper it stays put. On glossy papers hand moisture takes some of the blue dye away (my speculation) and it turns redder (my observation).

Edited June 3, 2012 by blazv

[Ad_Astra]

That's really cool to see the inks' component dyes! Nicely done; you should post a bunch of those separately in the Comparisons forum. I'm sure quite a few people would love to see them!