Inkstains

[igenlode]

Among the hazards of writing in the small hours: dropping permanent ink on your pillow :-p

(The pillowcase wanted washing anyway, but that mark is never going to come out despite my immediate scrubbing: like Nancy in The Picts and the Martyrs, I shall have to pretend it is a drop of blood gone black :-D )

Interestingly the mould did pretty much come out, which is the difference between organic and inorganic stains...

(Incidentally, after washing my fingerless gloves to little avail it eventually dawned on me that the mysterious reddish brown stains on the thumbs and palms were in fact the result of walking around out of doors handling the leather binding of my current notebook -- which is evidently dyed that rich brown colour, and apparently not completely colourfast!)

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[watervole]

On the plus side, most modern inks seem to fade very quickly, if my experience is anything to go by. Some stuff written a few years ago has faded really badly.

[igenlode]

Permanent black Quink, I'm afraid: "incredibly lightfast, allowing it to be used where archival is important".
https://www.saa.co.uk/shop/colour/ink/drawing-inks/parker-quink-permanent-ink-black-57ml--50238/

I noticed this morning that there was a smudge on the corner of the fitted sheet, as well, but I'm not even going to attempt to strip that off and wash it, since scrubbing the pillowcase hard had very little effect (save a slight gold/blue 'rainbow' where the pigments spread a little afterwards on the damp cotton). It's good clean dirt, as it were, as opposed to bodily secretions.