oak-gall

A real book is parchment*, scrolled onto beechwood; hand inscribed in oak-gall ink.

Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan 2010

Old Guy is griping to me about kids just out of diapers sitting at computers, while he still remembers how to trim a goose-quill and make oak-gall ink...

When autumn leaves start to fall jhetley 2006

He dipped the nib again in his pot of oak-gall ink.

Lord of the Isles 1997

It was of that soft coal which people in the Middle States burn in happy indifference to its dust-making qualities, because of its charm of sudden-puffing flames, which burst from the bubbling blackness with a singing noise, like the explosion of an oak-gall stepped on unawares in the woods.

John Ward, Preacher Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

It builds its little oval, somewhat urn-shaped cells against the roof of the large deserted galls of the oak-gall fly (Diplolepis confluentus), placing them, in this instance eleven in number, in two irregular rows, from which the mature bees issue through a hole in the gall (Fig. 27, with two separate cells).

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The Mason bee (Osmia) places her nest in a more exposed site, building her earthen cells of pellets of moistened mud, either situated under a stone, or in some more sheltered place; for instance, in a deserted oak-gall, ranging half a dozen of them side by side along the vault of this strange domicile.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

It was written more than 1,300 years ago in a neat hand using ink made of oak-gall nuts mixed with carbon.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

Like the whorl of an out-of-this-world ear that had been lent to an oak-gall wasp by a tenth century Irish monk who would hold out oak-gall ink against the predicament in which he found himself ...

The New Republic - All Feed Paul Muldoon 2009