Hello! I’ve been gone for a while and now I’m back! (thanks for sticking around!) I just moved across the country again and to celebrate my fickleness I’m putting down my Burgundian project for a while longer and making some historically inspired writing ink. These oak galls were foraged from a local park and they're not the same ones that would have been used traditionally, so it was a bit of an experiment. Spoiler: it goes OKAY but not GREAT, but it wasn't the gall's fault.

00:01:17 about Iron Gall Ink
00:02:24 Galls? What?
00:05:14 Making the ink (steeping galls)
00:07:04 Making the ink (about green vitriol)
00:08:54 Making the ink (magic bit)
00:10:47 Voila

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I’ve also r e b r a n d e d as Making History. I think I’ve outgrown Lydia’s Secret Sewage and I’m ready to expand beyond both the sewing and the secrets. I started this channel without telling anyone I knew as a way to indulge my budding hobby of historical recreation, but it turns out I love making funny little edutainment/project videos too much to not pour my heart into it and let everyone know. I also like making stuff other than clothes!

Making History will document my historically inspired crafts and clothing, as well as the research rabbit holes I get into as an amateur material historian. I’ll continue posting rarely and sporadically, so do subscribe because there will probably be a Burgundian Gown coming at you for real in the next... 6 months or so.
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The recipe book:
https://archive.org/details/gri_oneth...

Music:
Mozart String Quintet no. 4 in Gm, K. 516 perf. Roxana Pavel Goldstein, via Musopen, Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0

Image credits in film.