印出用 松烟墨의 標準粘度에 관한 實驗的 硏究

Abstract

The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate the standard adhesiveness of the traditional Korean ink for printing. The major findings are as follows: (1) Korean traditional ink is a name by which people generically call a block of ink mass made from soots and pine pitch, and it can be classified into pine pitch ink and oil pitch ink according to the type of soot. (2) It has been known that pine pitch ink is appropriate for block printing, while oil pitch ink is appropriate for printing with movable types. (3) Only oil pitch ink, but not pine pitch ink, is currently available, and its basic adhesiveness required for making ink is 18〫 in Japan, 25〫 in China, and 22〫 in Korea. (4) The lower the adhesiveness of an ink stick is, the easier it can be rubbed and the less often it gets cracked. (5) Generally it is better to keep in some degree the thickness of traditional Korean mulberry papers, and the standard adhesiveness of ink as 22〫 -25〫 , when pine pitch ink is used for wood block printing. (6) It is strongly expected that the traditional technique of making pine pitch ink, not passed down to this generation, could be recovered and succeeded as soon as possible.