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August Daily Samples, Wearingeul

To be honest, I often pick which samples I am going to try out by what is actively available AS a sample because some things – like ColorVerse – seem to be almost impossible to find. Maybe I need to look around some more…

Which brings me to Wearingeul. I’d seen posts on Instagram of inks with some intriguing names linked back to this manufacturer, and I found a place that does samples last month. Hooray! The ink name that first intrigued me was “A Watery Star” which brought such an interesting image into my mind. I think the next one I saw was “A Taxidermied Genius” and I thought, okay where can I find more of this awesomeness. 

When I start looking for ink samples these days I just google the manufacturer + sample and see what pops up. Often I get vanness1938.com as a first result, which was where I did get these this time. But I also look for a site that will tell me anything about the inks. Which brought me to the Hamilton Pen Company. They have all of the series sorted out with a nice tool in the side bar, so I could easily see which inks belonged to which series. 

What further intrigued me about these inks is that the series are all associated with literature. One of them is even called “World Literature Series.” Ink colors associated with books? Yes please. I am a book lover, and the idea of inks associated with literature sounded awesome. I have also discovered that if an ink is named something and then the color of that ink does not match the name – let’s say the ink is named “Verdant Grass” but the color is like. Orange. Then it makes me super grumpy.

So a series of inks that are “re-interpreted novels”? I am expecting the ink colors to make SENSE. For example, one of the series is “Alice in Wonderland” and one of those inks is Alice, and the Alice ink is a light blue with light gold glitter. In my head, that matches what I think of when I think of the character from Alice in Wonderland. She’s blonde and wears a blue dress – matchy matchy. 

What will be trickier is some of the inks that come from an author I am unfamiliar with. But that also means I have some fun opportunities for research and also finding out about some new books to read. 

That was my thought process when looking at these – and the next thing I had to figure out was how to get exactly 31 of them. That was fun. I basically wrote down every single series and figured out which ones to Tetris together to equal 31. Then when I went to pick up the samples, an ink in one series was unavailable. Sigh. So I picked up a 2 ink series and have an extra yay. 

And here are the inks I picked up to sample this month:

20 sample vials from above, sitting in an orange tray. Each white cap has three sticker dots on them. One of the sticker dots says 8.22, the second is a number from 1-20, and the third is blank. They are laid out in numerical order by fives.
Sample Vials from above.

Yi Sang Series

  • 13 Children
  • A Taxidermied Genius
  • Architecture Infinite Cube
  • Me In The Mirror
  • Soyeongwije

Natsume Soseki Series

  • I am a cat
  • Mind
  • San shirt

Alice in Wonderland

  • Alice
  • Cheshire Cat
  • Mad Hatter
  • Queen of Hearts
  • White Rabbit

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  • Cowardly Lion
  • Dorothy
  • Scarecrow
  • Tin Woodman

Jeong Ji-yong Series

  • A Watery Star
  • Floating Clouds
  • The Night Colored in Grape

Kim Sowol Series

  • Flowing Leaves
  • Half Moon with Dimmed Light
  • The Flowers on the Way
  • The Song of Reed

World Literature Series

  • Beneath the Wheel
  • Don Quixote
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls
  • Jane Eyre
  • Metamorphosis 
  • Resurrection

Demian Series

  • Lost 
  • Mature (this one is extra)

Now all we have to do is sample each ink, one at a time, and see how these turn out. I’ll be reading up on some of these authors I am unfamiliar with so I’ll report back if I find anything interesting!