Sailor Kingdom Note "green Experience" Ostrich Fern

[white_lotus]

As many, if not most, people know, Sailor makes custom or bespoke inks for specialty shops in Japan. Some of these, such as Bungbox or Kobe, are readily available online even from US vendors such as Vanness or Anderson Pens. Others are available online in Japan. Many others are only available through in person purchase at the shop.

 

The Kingdom Note inks are available online in Japan, and through purchasers known as "forwarders" one is able to obtain these inks, though at additional cost.

 

Each year KN works with the Sailor master ink maker to produce a new set of inks for the shop. This year it appears the title of the series is "Green Experience" and it focuses on some green plants native to Asia and Japan.

 

This ink is based on the Ostrich Fern. Oftentimes KN has used the scientific name for a species, but in this case a common name has been chosen. Matteuccia struthiopteris is the scientific name. The drawing on the labels show a fairly common fern, and here in New York, this is known as the fiddlehead fern.

 

It is a somewhat muted, blue-leaning green. It's quite wet. Very good lubrication. Show through and bleed through were not problems.

 

The images I took really darkened the text, far beyond how it appears in actuality. It shades quite well. There really isn't much sheen, and what might be there seems to serve more to darken the dark elements of the shading. The ink has a very pleasant color, not at all grass green, and not bright. But not heavily grayed, you can still see a strong green.

 

I tried to show a comparison with the Japanese Beech ink, which is near black, with this one, but the iPhone really just wanted to make them both black. Wrong! Oh, computers.

 

The ink is fairly water resistant. Given the amount of ink laid down, a great deal stayed behind both on blotting as well as a 4 oz pour of water. Quite legible afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[amberleadavis]

HMM>>>>>>>

 

I think I like this one quite a bit. Unexpected water resistance. Thank you so much for sharing.