Barock Inks revived

[mke]

The company octopus has revived the East German Barock inks which were produced until 2011.

https://www.octopus-office.de/shop/de/kreativ-tinten/fuellhaltertinte-schreibtinte/barock-fuellhaltertinten/

 

 

Their message - machine translated and uncorrected.

 

Good day ,

do you still remember the fountain pen inks from Barock? Barock was the traditional ink brand in the former GDR. Who in those days wrote with a fountain pen, filled it with Barock ink. Barock inks were still produced until 2011, when the company had to file for insolvency. And it's no secret that we at Octopus filled the gap that arose from that point on and maintained ink production at the Dresden site.

We are all the more pleased that we can now offer our writing inks again under the old familiar brand name "Barock". From now on, Barock inks will complement our Octopus ink range.

And we are starting with two Barock collections:

The Barock Neon inks are a special bottling of our fluorescent Octopus Neon inks. With these inks, we want to build a bridge between the historic Barock production site and the Barock Event Park with its Blackluxx black light mini golf course, which is now located on it.

The Barock 1910 collection, on the other hand, is the start of a collection series with which we dedicate ourselves to the different decades of our century.

In our first collection, we turn to the epoch of Art Nouveau. 6 strong, well saturated colors capture the spirit of this period.

[RJS]

Caviar and Bordeaux look really interesting... might have to stump up €24 to get the pair of them!

[PatriciaRogers]

I am a long-time R&K fan (Salix, Verdigris, Scabiosa) and many Diamines including Blue-black, Oxford Blue, and Oxblood. Something about these inks really got my attention.

I decided to try Marine and Kaviar.

A week of daily use later, the Kaviar particularly has blown me away. The shading is lovely (med) and the flow was perfect in both these two; a WingSung 630 <F> & Lamy Aion <18KF>.

It is less violet than Scabiosa. To my eye, I see grey-rose. I love it.

This is a keeper for sure. I think Bordeaux and Umbra may be next! 

 

Bravo Barock. 

[RJS]

1 hour ago, PatriciaRogers said:

I am a long-time R&K fan (Salix, Verdigris, Scabiosa) and many Diamines including Blue-black, Oxford Blue, and Oxblood. Something about these inks really got my attention.

I decided to try Marine and Kaviar.

A week of daily use later, the Kaviar particularly has blown me away. The shading is lovely (med) and the flow was perfect in both these two; a WingSung 630 <F> & Lamy Aion <18KF>.

It is less violet than Scabiosa. To my eye, I see grey-rose. I love it.

This is a keeper for sure. I think Bordeaux and Umbra may be next! 

 

Bravo Barock. 

Ah, good to see someone else tried their inks too. I bought Kaviar and Bordeaux. I have only tried the Kaviar so far, which is proving a bit of a chameleon on different papers. What paper have you tried it on?  

[ElPlacerDeLaEscritura]

Great news

[RJS]

I'll explain what I meant by Kaviar being a chameleon-

 

On Iroful and Tomeo River it's a bit of a lifeless faded dusty purple-grey. Shows some interesting shading but overall not something I liked.

 

Next I tried it in a Paperblanks with high gsm paper. Yikes! A feathering disaster. The paper is somewhat prone to feathering but that is the worst I've seen. The colour looked more vivid, but it was completely unusable.

 

I felt disheartened at this point, but thankfully I started to find papers where the ink worked, on a variety of upper mid-range notebooks. Good colour and no feathering.

 

 

[PatriciaRogers]

I've used it on Rhodia 80g and yes, it lost some of the rose, leaving ash dominant but not a totally empty grey. I use it in my Yu-Sari notebook, I think it's 80g as well, that is beautiful.

I too used it in a Paperblanks book (my diary/journal) it was/is perfect, I am so sorry to hear it bled on you! I haven't tried it with a flex or semi-flex nib yet - that's where my bleeding problems usually happen. 

I've ordered the Bordeaux - wondering where it will be between Diamine Writer's Blood and Oxblood, two of my absolute favourites.

 

I'll let you guys know 🙂

[RJS]

10 minutes ago, PatriciaRogers said:

I've used it on Rhodia 80g and yes, it lost some of the rose, leaving ash dominant but not a totally empty grey. I use it in my Yu-Sari notebook, I think it's 80g as well, that is beautiful.

I too used it in a Paperblanks book (my diary/journal) it was/is perfect, I am so sorry to hear it bled on you! I haven't tried it with a flex or semi-flex nib yet - that's where my bleeding problems usually happen. 

I've ordered the Bordeaux - wondering where it will be between Diamine Writer's Blood and Oxblood, two of my absolute favourites.

 

I'll let you guys know 🙂

I'll have to try it in my old 2023 Paperblanks diary to see how it does there... this new Paperblanks notebook has thicker but less well behaved paper. It's in a TWSBI, which I wouldn't even call a wet writer...

 

So long as I can find some nice papers an ink is well behaved and attractive with, I don't worry too much. There's a few inks that fade away a bit on the fancy Iroful/Tomeo papers. 
 

Writer's Blood and Oxblood are also two of my absolute favourites! I'll share some writing samples once I fill a pen with the Bordeaux.