Create your own beautful itajime and suminagashi decorative washi with this easy and fun to use kit. Includes six mixable colours giving you a rainbow of options. These inks are not ordinary dyes. They are pigment inks made by blending high grade cosmetic pigments with PVA via a special process. They have good adhesion to materials and do not run or blot in water. Furthermore they have an opacity not found in dyes and can be mixed according to standard colour rules like paints. the inks will also be applied in layers when the undercoat is dry. Virtually all ordinary materials which soak up water (paper, cloth, hide, wood etc) can be marbled with these inks. Made in Japan