#wearingeul

I'm playing a Ninth House cavalier again! ("Typecast much?" smirked a partner.) For "2 Dead 2 Furious", by Pretty Good Larps, taking "Harrow the Ninth" as inspiration. I'm expecting some amazing mindfuckery!

This is the title page in a book I'm filling up with words as a prop. Details on ink etc below the cut.

-Thank you @ladyqueth for letting me know about this!!

I managed to get to the pop up for Wearingeul, the Korean ink and stationery maker I only learned about through a foreign friend I made on the American app Tumblr where we talk about Ateez (sometimes the internet and fandom functions like it was always supposed to).

It was extremely gorgeous and deserved a better photographer than me.

They just WIN at packaging and product branding because HOW CAN YOU RESIST?

They also had the most ridiculously charming bookmarks of all time, both in embroidered cloth versions and cardboard clip versions:

My haul, because I went a bit insane:

OK so, I asked the sellers if you could use the glittery inks with regular fountain pens, and they said they didn't recommend it. Oh well OK, so twist my arm, I guess I HAVE TO buy that glass dipping pen which looks like an evil fairy's favorite wand. Oh Boohoo me. I got Moby Dick, which understandably is an ocean blue that has streaks of darker navy but less understandably has gold glitter (Moby Dick does not put to my mind gold glitter, but the ink is undeniably gorgeous.) I also bought a couple Chinese fountain pens after hearing so much about them (they are on order) so i bought a non glittery ink. Of all the colors, I liked The Sorrows of Young Werther best, though I have to confess that I have not read that book.

I also bought a set of the paper bookmarks, as well as their little handy guide on how to be a fountain and dip pen user. And they sell this solution for making the glittery inks not dry up, I think, but you could sell me literally anything if you called it Swan Elixir. Because I bought such a big haul, they also gave me the embroidered ink wiping cloth, and I won a masking tape from the gacha pull, so I picked Anna Karenina. (Oh they also had masking tapes, but I have too many so I didn't really look).

My current favourite pen - the sailor pro gear slim

Originally this pen write very scratchy with hard starts and skipping, but with a wetter ink and some light pressure it writes beautifully. The weight and size of this pen are great for those with smaller hands and the colours are all beautiful.

It did come with a matching ink but I have unfortunately lost it - the two inks in this writing sample are wearingeul three musketeers and sailor iroshizuku syo-ro.

Three musketeers was slightly too dry for this pen, and is a nice blue black with some shading that doesn’t come through much in this small of a nib.

wearingeul - jane eyre

color: neutral-toned grape purple.

properties: little to medium shading, no sheen nor shimmer. medium to dry flow.

water-resistance: surprisingly, good enough!

this is such a beautiful purple ink. the flow of it makes it really nice for dip pens, but i kind of found it mid to use with fountain pens (skipping happens sometimes).

wearingeul - hwanung

color: cloudy pastel blue

properties: little shading, no shimmer nor sheen, decent flow, not too wet, not too dry.

water-resistance: it may look like it survived here, but it's usually not water-resistant.