Ink Review #2741: Wearingeul A Study in Scarlet

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Today’s ink is Wearingeul A Study In Scarlet from the World Literature Series. You can find this ink for sale at some retailers including Vanness Pens.

The color:

A Study in Scarlet is a deep red.

*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 has a little bit of shading.

Writing samples:

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

*For my writing samples I use:

Dry time: 50 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: There’s some bleeding in the flex nib and swab on Rhodia, but I think that’s due to a flaw in the paper rather than the ink. I’ve had this happen with most inks on this most recent batch of paper.

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

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering and bleeding in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

A Study in Scarlet is closest to Diamine Noel. Click here to see the red inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M205 Star Ruby with a fine nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, I feel like this ink never fully dries. On the dry time test it took 50 seconds, but in the longer writing sample it seemed to take a lot longer, and it never fully dried in the large swabs on Tomoe River paper. I’m not a fan of inks that take forever to dry, so this ink in a no for me.

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