Noodler's Midway Blue

[dcwaites]

Well, I now have samples on order of all three: Noodler's Blue, Midway Blue, and Ottoman Azure, and will try to do a side by side comparison (possibly also throwing in some other similar-ish blues and azures that I already have).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

You show me yours, and I'll show you mine.

When you have yours up, I will put mine up and see how the two sets compare.

[amberleadavis]

The fade resistance is impressive, Amber. I wonder how does the water resistance develop? I received my ink today and wrote a few sentences on quality bond paper to test it. I let it dry for an hour and then gently immersed it in water only to see 95% of the ink immediately float away leaving only a faint stain. This may have been a bad paper to use since it is a rag content bond, but intended, I think, for old fashioned typewriter use (remember them?). Some of those papers had coatings reducing the permeability of the paper rendering them somewhat "erasable". A few more tests are in order but so far the water resistance angle isn't doing much for me.

On the othe hand, I love the color. Not ultramarine blue, not cobalt blue, but cerullean blue sort of a color.

 

JohnM

 

 

I did the first water wash within minutes and then again in a few weeks. In my experience, it isn't water proof, but it was resistant enough to still see the content and the color. I'm not sure why your experience was so different.

[J85909266]

It's a bit too turquoise for me. I tire of those greeny blue shades quickly.

 

I like how Noodler's Blue stays as close to true blue without leaning purple.

[JohnNicholas]

Amber, it was the paper after all. I tried a piece of ordinary spiral notebook paper and the ink behaved quite differently. Apparently it must penetrate the fibers of the paper at least a little to achieve water resistance. The first bond paper was not absorbant at all and the ink floated away. The second paper held the ink very well under immersion in still water and gave up very little of the ink. Paper matters, i suppose.

 

JohnM

[amberleadavis]

John, I should have known (or remembered that) since what makes it waterproof is the ink bonding to the cellulose. (At least that's what I've read). Thank you for updating us with your experience.