'lampblack' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a noun that describes a black pigment produced by burning oil, soot, or tar. It can be used in many contexts, such as in sentences describing artwork or manufacturing processes. Example sentence: The artist used lampblack to give her painting a deep, glossy black.
The takamaki-e technique consists of building decorative motifs with a mixture of lacquer putty, white lead, lampblack, camphor, and gold or silver foil in relief against a lacquer ground.
The Chinese experimented with printing at least as early as ad 500, with inks from plant substances mixed with coloured earths and soot or lampblack.
When Johannes Gutenberg invented printing with movable type in Germany in about 1440, inks were made by mixing varnish or boiled linseed oil with lampblack.
Chalk drawing, in the visual arts, technique of drawing with chalk, a prepared natural stone or earth substance that is usually available in black (made either from soft black stone or from a composition including lampblack), white (made from various types of limestone), and red, or sanguine (made from red earths such as red ochre).
Lampblack ink was introduced in China in ad 400 and printing from wooden blocks in the 6th century.
This is done by brushing them with various gray or black powders containing chalk or lampblack combined with other agents.
They consisted of lampblack ground with a solution of glue or gums, molded into sticks, and allowed to dry.
The designs, executed by whale fishermen of American and Anglo-American origin, were carved with either a jackknife or a sail needle and then emphasized with black pigments, commonly lampblack.
For lithographic prints a plain dark-coloured crayon made of wax, soap, lac, mastic, sheep tallow, lampblack, and sometimes copal is used to draw an image directly on the stone surface.
Relief was obtained by modeling with a putty consisting of a mixture of lacquer with fine charcoal, white lead, lampblack, etc., camphor being added to make it work easily.
