In order to use the dry mixture, a wet brush would be applied until it reliquified. He states that the traditional Chinese method of making the ink was to grind a mixture of hide glue, carbon black, lampblack, and bone black pigment with a pestle and mortar before pouring it into a ceramic dish where it could dry. Mark Gottsegen argues however that India ink was first invented in China, although he attributes the source of the carbon pigment used in the ink to India.
Several ancient Buddhist and Jain scripts in India were also compiled in ink.In India, the carbon black from which India ink is formulated was obtained indigenously by burning bones, tar, pitch and other substances.
Indian documents written in Kharosthi with this ink have been unearthed in as far as Xinjiang, China.The practice of writing with ink and a sharp-pointed needle was common practice since antiquity in South India. India ink has been in use in India since at least the 4th century BC, where it was called masi, an admixture of several substances. A pen is often used as the drawing instrument in Indian ink drawings because lines of varying thickness and intensity can be made with it to achieve different effects as desired. Indian ink drawings are drawings in which Indian ink is used to obtain strong contrasts and saturated hues.
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