Van Dieman's 2025 July - Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly - 100ml Shimmered Fountain Pen Ink

Van Dieman’s Ink of the Month – July 2025: Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly

✨ Dark Water, Shifting Light ✨

The Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly (Calopteryx maculata) is one of the most striking insects found along streams and wetlands of eastern North America. With a glossy, almost metallic blue-green body and velvety black wings, it hovers and darts over shaded water, catching the light in quick flashes. Unlike most damselflies, the Ebony Jewelwing is large and unmistakable, known for its graceful, fluttering flight and iridescent brilliance. When resting, it folds its wings closed, revealing delicate translucence and subtle colour shifts that inspired this ink.

Our Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly ink captures that living magic in a way that’s as versatile as it is striking. The base is an ultra-saturated blue-black, dark and velvety, with a marvelous copper sheen that emerges on premium papers like Tomoe River and Rhodia. In normal use, it’s a bold, richly dark ink that commands attention—but when diluted with our Fountain Pen Ink Diluter, it transforms into something entirely different: a soft, ethereal blue-grey with multichromatic separation, echoing the damselfly’s shifting reflections in water.

Floating across it all is a color-shifting electric blue shimmer that flickers between blue, green, and purple depending on the light—just like the damselfly’s iridescent wings in motion. This is an ink for those who love complexity, versatility, and the quiet beauty of nature.

✨ Ink Details:

• Base Color: Ultra-saturated blue-toned black

• Sheen: Rich copper sheen on high-quality paper

• Shimmer: Color-shifting electric blue (blue, green, and purple)

• Dilution Effect: Transforms into a soft blue-grey with multichromatic separation

• Best For: Medium, broad, and calligraphy nibs—plus dilution experiments

🎨 Box Artwork
Painted by Belinda Rix in ink line and wash on watercolour paper. Damselflies perch among reeds, their transparent wings rendered with diluted Ebony Jewelwing to reveal hidden undertones.

Inks used in the artwork:

• Lost Love Letters (reeds—separating into organic browns and greens)

• All four inks from the Lilac-Breasted Roller

• Federation Peak

• Ebony Jewelwing (diluted to create the color separation in the damselfly wings)

• Blue Jay Wing

• Macleay’s Swallowtail Butterfly

💎 Limited Edition – Only 100 bottles individually numbered

🎁 SPECIAL OFFER – Get Ebony Jewelwing FREE!
Buy 10 items in July and receive a FREE bottle with your order—no code needed.

🛍️ Reserve Yours Before It Flies Away

Bring the shimmer, depth, and wonder of the stream’s edge to your writing.