Ferris Wheel Press Shimmer Inks

Let’s take a look at four Ferris Wheel Press shimmer inks today. You can find these inks for sale at Vanness Pens.

Swabs:

Left to right: Velvet Ballet, The Land of Shangri-la, Workshop Wishes and Twinkling Tea Party.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry Time: 40-70 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low

Other properties: Velvet Ballet has low shading and silver shimmer. Workshop Wishes has medium shading and rose gold shimmer. Land of Shangri-la has low shading, low green sheen and gold shimmer. Twinkling Tea Party has medium shading and rose gold shimmer.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Velvet Ballet is less saturated than PenBBS Danjo.

Workshop Wishes is much lighter than these other brown inks.

Land of Shangri-la is closest to Diamine Inkvent Winter Spice.

Twinkling Tea Party is darker than De Atramentis Heliogen Green Copper and lighter than Diamine Alpine.

All four had dry flows.

Overall, I think Velvet Ballet and Workshop Wishes are my favorites out of the four. I do wish all of them were a bit wetter.

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