Handmade ink is spooned from a bowl in Dong Ho village near Hanoi, Vietnam.
This black sludge was once bamboo growing near the village. After the artisans burn the bamboo, they soak the charcoal for a year, and only then is it ready to be made into ink. I filled a water bottle with the ink, and used it for the illustrations for my paper book which will be published next year.
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