Sailor

Sailor Souboku Pigment Bottle Ink - Blue Black 50mL

$28.00
$28.00
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About Sailor:

Sailor was founded in 1911. The founder Kyugoro Sakata was given a fountain pen by a friend returning from the UK after studying at the Royal Navy. He was inspired and determined to start making fountain pens in Japan. Sailor became the first fountain pen company in Japan, and earned many more firsts in Japan -- first ballpoint pen in 1948, first ink cartridge in 1954 and first brush pen in 1972, etc.

In the 1970's, Sailor made a popular beginner fountain pen, "Candy," that sold more than 15 million within a few years. However, the number of the fountain pen users were declining as ballpoint pens became more mainstream.

In 1981, Sailor decided to go in the opposite direction from their "Candy" pen and began focusing on producing a higher standard series, which is the 1911 series we see today. Their focus on making a higher standard provides a great foundation for their later series of pens. Today, Sailor makes one of the most diverse lines of nibs, some of which are designed for specific writing purposes such as writing musical notes to one that is best for character writing.

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Courtney J
Love this ink

I’ve been trading off using Sailor pigment Sou-boku and Sei-boku inks, for the past 10-months, in my Sailor Dragon Palace MF pen, writing in my Hobonichi 2021 planner. Happy with these inks. They’re beautiful colors. Quite similar, but the Sou- is a little blacker-toned, the Sei- a little more blue. They behave well in the pens. I use my pen every day, but sometimes even leave the same ink cartridge for a couple weeks before cleaning it (with pen flush incl part ammonia), and neither of these inks gunks up my pen. As the days go on, the color of the ink changes a bit prob because pigment settles instead of fresh-mixed when filled. I don’t mind that color change. (Flipping back through prev. pages, can be hard to tell difference which was which sometimes.) I’m just happy that it writes smoothly and doesn’t gunk and is a lovely color (both of them are, I can’t pick a favorite). They are also waterproof once dry and dry fairly quickly too, — I use watercolor paints over them. These -boku inks are supposedly as non-fading/permanent/archival as fountain pen inks can be, and have survived light tests online better than most archival fp inks, which is important to me. I will prob keep writing with both these inks well into the future. I like these 2 sailor inks better than Noodlers (have tried many of their bulletproof) and maybe more than DeAtramentis Document Ink too, though I also use that.