India ink

Example Sentences

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The Victorian-era collections are true works of art, with purple, red, brown and green algae arranged in eye-catching patterns on sturdy white card and signed in flowing India ink.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2020

Visitors can see the pencil lines beneath the India ink, and the white-out on top.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020

“There’s a white lime coating underneath . and they put black India ink on top.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2016

They are made of plywood with the letters stenciled in India ink.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2013

One could have believed that its whiteness, smoothness, and expanse had at one time cried out rather plaintively for India ink and block lettering.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger