The colors in this video are so lovely! Here is a video from The Printing Ink Company that shows chief ink maker Peter Welfare explaining how an ink is made from start to finish. [via]

It’s a wonderful look inside a modern industrial ink factory to see just how much goes into making just a single color (and then how that color can be mixed with others to create another color).

Take a look at the beginning ink-making process where they toss the ink around with hand tools. Doesn’t it make you think of Cold Stone?