Speedball Art Products Company 003477 003477 Block Printing Ink Set

This ink is being sold by Amazon as a block printing ink for fabric and they claim "Ink Colours print on a range of fabric with bold, opaque, colour, which is dry to the touch overnight, and remains permanent through the wash., no heat set is required." This is WRONG. I used it on fabric and it washed away. What a waste of hours of my time. I expect it is lovely for other applications such as paper printing so 2 stars but definitely NOT a fabric ink as described. See before and after wash images below - I tried red, yellow and blue. Only the red has partial colour fastness, blue and yellow just vanish in the wash.

You cannot go wrong with speedball ink. It’s thick, easy to roll on printing blocks. It’s dries to the touch within 30 minutes. Easy use for beginners.

Worked well.

Basic set of water-based block printing inks. The red and blue are very saturated primary colors, but there is a lot of white in the yellow so its more of a butter color rather than a primary yellow. Either way, works well for my purposes. Smaller tubes, so they don't last super long, but great to play around with. Speedball is my go-to brand, especially for water-based inks (there is more clean-up required with oil-based inks). I also have a roller from Speedball that has lasted me more than 2 years. Good stuff!

Small but mighty! Colours are great and you don’t need much for a great print!