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Encre

The drawing inks are known as encre in French. Mostly people will use black color for sketching and drawing purposes because black is the color that has the power of attraction. Especially in India encre is purely black and bright with the shining property. Black encre offers very good quality in achieving durability and the attraction of color. People in Europe used it in developing the manuscripts in the 1twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The dark black color is attained by the dispersion of the carbon black in solutions that are aqueous mixed with the gelatin substance. Later, the invention of colored inks started booming.