Category: Rhodia
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Vinta Sea Kelp (Leyte 1944)
Vinta Sea Kelp (Leyte 1944) is the full name of the ink. The name refers to the Battle of the Leyte Gulf which was fought in 1944. The ink is an olive green with an average flow. After flushing the insides of the pen with water, I noticed the ink left a ring of colour…
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Diamine Onyx Black
Onyx Black is a black ink with a wet flow. This is not a pitch black ink, if you look closely, you will notice a little shading. But for general purposes, this is black enough for me. I noticed this ink takes a while to fully dry. This ink is easy to clean out of…
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Dominant Industry Winter Wood
Winter Wood is a brown-black ink with an average flow. At the start of the writing session, the words look almost black due to the amount of ink. As I continued writing and the ink flow stabilised, shades of brown appeared. This ink is easy to clean out of the pen. The writing samples below…
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Vinta Sunrise (Hanan 1964)
Sunrise (Hanan 1964) is named after Goddess of Morning in Philippine mythology and the year refers to the year Fernando Amorsolo’s painting “The Harvesters” was completed. The ink is a pale yellow colour with a dry flow. The ink is so light that it was hard to read anything I am writing. I only wrote…
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Van Dieman’s Tasmanian Lavender on Rhodia
Ink Tasmanian Lavender is from the Harvest line which takes inspiration from the produce of Tasmania. The ink is an unsaturated purple with a wet flow. On Rhodia paper, Writing Sample This was written with a TWSBI ECO-T medium nib. Below are a couple of photos of how it looks when it was written on…
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Birmingham Mountain Laurel on Rhodia
Ink Mountain Laurel is part of the Crisp Formula collection where the inks were designed to work well on a variety of papers. This ink is a very pale dusky pink when wet and dries to a slightly darker shade. I believed the colour was inspired by the mountain laurel flowers which ranges from white…
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Lennon Tool Bar Shuise on Rhodia
Ink Shuise is an ink from Lennon Tool Bar’s Indigo Series. The Chinese words on the label, “水色”, literally means the colour of water. Supposedly the inspiration behind this colour came about during a trip to the cloth market to buy light blue fabric. I find this ink to be too light to use for…
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Lennon Tool Bar Saira on Rhodia
Ink Saira is the name of the 2019 Autumn Limited Series. Saira is the scientific name of the Pacific saury fish. On the bottle label, there is another name – 秋刀魚 – which is the Japanese name. In Mandarin, the words literally translates to “autumn knife fish”. I’ve always thought 秋刀魚 to be a beautiful…
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Birmingham Salt Water Taffy on Rhodia
Ink Salt Water Taffy used to under the Swift Formula collection of inks designed to be wetter than average and performs well in a wide variety of fountain pen. Birmingham had since changed groupings of the inks. This ink is a bright, neon pink that has a slight orange undertone. The pink is very saturated…
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Van Dieman’s Peanut Brittle on Rhodia
Ink Peanut Brittle is from the Harvest line which takes inspiration from the produce of Tasmania. The ink colour is a yellow-brown with a tinge of orange. Depending on the shading, the colour reminds me of honey and peanut butter. The ink has an average flow. On Rhodia paper, there is shading, no sheen, no…
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