Ink Review #1936: Van Dieman's Huon Midwinter Festival

Van Dieman’s Huon Midwinter Festival is from the Tassie/Seasons collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Huon Festival is a deep brown with lots of gold shimmer.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink is mostly shimmer.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

*For my writing samples I use:

• EF Pilot Vanishing Point

• F, M, B Pilot Ishime

• Vintage Mabie Todd Swan (flex nib)

• Rhodia Goalbook

• Taroko Enigma notebooks (68gsm TR)

• Leuchtturm A5

• Pen & Gear Paper from Walmart

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Medium

Other properties: no shading, no sheen, and gold shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering and some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Huon Festival’s base color isn’t close to any of the other brown shimmer inks I have. Click here to see the brown inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Pelikan M200 Gold Marbled with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had an average flow but clogged quite a few times.

Overall, I like the color-it would be perfect for Thanksgiving cards, but there are too many issues for me: bleeding, feathering and clogging. There are better behaved shimmer inks out there than this one.

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