Advertising Ink BlottersĬompanies began giving away blotter sheets with their advertising messages and contact details. Advertisers were quick to see an opportunity and capitalize on it. (Sorry!)īy the 1950’s, even though fashionable desk sets still included a rocker, many people had found that it was just as effective (and a little more convenient) to simply use blotting paper sheets and press them down on a page by hand. So far we’ve established that fountain pen users were the first rock ‘n rollers. They never quite gained the same popularity, probably because they didn’t work quite as well. These blotter rollers can also be found in antique shops and through online auctions, but not as commonly as the rockers. It could then be rolled over the page to absorb the ink. The basic idea was the same botting paper was wrapped around the roller and glued in place. The paper retained ink far better than felt, and could be replaced quickly and inexpensively.Ī variation on the idea of the rocker was another design in the form of a roller. This highly absorbent blotting paper (with the thickness of a card stock) was easily cut to size and attached to a rocker using a plate and screw. You may also recognize it as very similar to the paper used by watercolor artists. Bibulous paper is a fibrous paper that is also used in laboratories for test strips. Then, in 1856, the company of Joseph Parker and Son, began producing bibulous paper for ink blotting. This was a marked improvement, but the felt was expensive and tended to become stained before long and could leave marks. These had a piece of felt attached to a curved base, and were used by rocking the felt over the page so that it absorbed the freshly laid down ink. In the early 1800’s, the first “hand blotters” were devised. It worked to a degree, but you only need to go back and read some documents of that era to see that smudging was a problem. Whilst this still fitted with the theme, I just felt it was better as black.Before the invention of ink blotting paper, starting back in the days of quill pens, people would sometimes sprinkle salt on their writing as a way to quickly dry up excess ink. I had to make a decision early on, with ink blot 2, as it had red in. Finally, I made them all, pixel by pixel to get it perfect. They had blues in, or purples and they looked wrong. These shades were OK, but the way the DMC colors work, the dark colors were hued. But this meant it was not only non-symmetrical, a key feature of the ink blots, but it was full of shades. My first idea was to pick just one and make it huge, but as you guessed, it was a lot of black. Not only were they (mostly) black, but they were a pseudoscience that was very of the noir movie aesthetic and time period. They were full of color, but I loved the idea of a Rorschach ink blot test. But then I happened across a set of ink blot tests in a toy store. I tend to stitch on black a lot, but making a dark black stitch is hard, and frankly, not very interesting. So of course, my mind went to black for the stitch too.īut I couldn’t find anything I liked. I know the themes are based on general terms to help promote a more varied selection, but I also write for the magazine, and in this issue, I spoke about black. I design patterns for the Xstitch magazine, and this issue the theme was noir. Title: Rorschach Ink Blot Test Panels 1 to 6 Rorschach Ink Blot Test Cross Stitches by Lord Libidan
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