Sailor Pen And Message "writing Lab" Quadrifoglio

[white_lotus]

In the beginning of the Sailor bespoke ink journey, the Pen and Message shop generated quite a bit of interest with their inks. They actually have two “lines” of specialty Sailor inks: the Pen and Message line and Writing Lab, the latter a collaboration with another shop.

I’ve never tried to obtain the Pen and Message inks; surprisingly some of them didn’t appeal to me. They quickly became hard to get once the craze for Cigar took off. So this post is about the Writing Lab inks, which intrigued me greatly.

They have three inks in the category and I’ll review them all, though I’ve reviewed one of them, Old Burgundy, in the past from a sample kindly provided by an FPNer.

Quadrifoglio

Vintage Denim

Old Burgundy

These inks are more expensive than other Sailor bespoke inks at ¥2,700 per bottle, which is about $23.67 US as of today (1/22/2017). This price doesn't include shipping to the destination or any charges incurred using a forwarding service. Each person is limited to purchasing one bottle.

Pen: Pelikan M400 (F)

Papers: MvL=Mohawk via Linen, TR=Tomoe River, Hij=Hammermill 28 lb inkjet, Rhodia=Rhodia 90g ivory.

Camera: iPhone 7

Quadrifoglio is one of three inks in the "Writing Lab" series of inks made by Sailor for the Pen and Message shop in Japan. It is a somewhat muted green, leaning towards blue rather than yellow. I personally prefer the latter, but this is very nice, not a bright color at all. The ink comes in the vase bottle still, perhaps one of the few left doing so, but the ink is also more expensive.

I was somewhat surprised in the waterfastness test where there wasn't so much ink washed away by water, and when water droplets were blotted something was left behind. Perhaps enough to recover one's writing. No guarantees however as the ink isn't rated as water resistant.

 

Sorry that the bottle image pic was so big, I thought I'd made it smaller than that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[visvamitra]

Very, very nice ink.

[inkstainedruth]

My initial gut reaction was "oh, this looks too dark a green for me". But then I started to look more closely and noticed the shading and started to re-think my initial impressions.

Thanks for the review. And, well, not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[da vinci]

The perfect dark green ink? I am not sure but it must be in the running..

 

 

Thanks for yet another helpful review.