Okay, Drop spindle's pretty easy I'm told, for spinning. Though it'll take you a coon's age to get enough for a sock, and I know making ink is real easy. :)
Walnut ink: take some walnuts and soak 'em in water for ever and ever -or- boil 'em in a pot (preferably iron) and add some gum arabic to the mix for um, gum arabic-ness. voila! I don't think walnut ink is medieval, but walnuts are easy to come by.
You can make ink from lamp black too, collect your soot, mix with water and gum arabic just like you would paint. Easy peasy.
But dude, An Tir's A&S rules have to be a lot harder than the Midrealm's if you've got to go to such lengths just to enter ;)
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Walnut Ink
Date: 2004-03-08 07:15 am (UTC)Walnut ink: take some walnuts and soak 'em in water for ever and ever -or- boil 'em in a pot (preferably iron) and add some gum arabic to the mix for um, gum arabic-ness. voila! I don't think walnut ink is medieval, but walnuts are easy to come by.
You can make ink from lamp black too, collect your soot, mix with water and gum arabic just like you would paint. Easy peasy.
But dude, An Tir's A&S rules have to be a lot harder than the Midrealm's if you've got to go to such lengths just to enter ;)