Columbia River Maritime Museum - Astoria Oregon
September 28, 2024
From ship’s logs to letters carried across the sea, ink has traveled with people for centuries. In this workshop we will render plants into ink and explore mark-making.
Working with plant-based inks connects us to the past and to the land itself in tangible ways. We will make sea-blue ink from locally grown indigo pigment, brown ink from Sitka Spruce needles – a tree once used extensively in ship-building – and black Iron-Gall ink like that used historically for important papers of all kinds.
Students will also have a chance to view historic documents from Columbia River Maritime Museums archival collection.