How can i make a home made ink?

Walnut ink...but it's not so fast to make. I've googled this subject before and found quite a bit of info on making walnut ink.

I agree with yur other commentors, the walnut thing work well but the dye from tht is not a "colorfast one over time", the blackberry or "dewberry" (members of the raspeberry family) is a good choice too and is just a bit more "colorfast" (colorfast meaning that the color is more permanent) Black dye or inks can be made several ways,.....(warm blacks) using charcoal,....... you can crush it and sift it through a screen trying to obtain just the smallest partticlkes or "powder" and then add a little alcohol and water and boil it to break down the particles and then pour the resulting black ink off into a vessel that you can store the ink in. then too there is "bone black" where a bone is used as the charcoal and then saved in a vessel. To make a cold black, take a piece of steel plate and use a regular candle as the blackening agent, place the steel over the flame into the actual flame's tip, it will leave behind a black sooty residue that you can scrape off with a razor blade, ( the resulting ink is technically "feric carbonate")once again mixing this with alcohol and water. The alcohol in these recipes acts as the interface medium with water. you'll notice if you make any of these black dyes that the charcoal is not mixing with the water very well, thats because the black dyes are made from a source of organic origin (candle fat, animal fat, vegetable fat) and they seem to float in the water, ....the alcohol mixes with the water and the fat, thus marrying the water and the charcoal into one solution. This goes for just about any source of coloring, even white which can be made form lead oxide. Too, you can obtain a copy of the "artist's guide to his materials" or the "artisit's guide to his market" just about any vegetable matter can be made into differing colors such as grass,....it is green of course but over time will bleach out and become yellow,......the yellow is more colorfast, so if you wanna make a green color,..use grass as the yellow part of the green and then use a purple dye such as blackberry, blackberry turns purple but over time is blue,"yellow and blue make green" so in this case you are using the secondary color from each of these dyes. to get the final color out of a dye, use a clear glass jar to store the primary colored ink in,....place your dye in & place it in the sun, in time it will beach out and you'll have a finished ink or dye. hope this helped you.