Editing Ink (section)

== Inkblots ==
In 19th century German poet [[Justinus Kerner]] invented the art of [[klecksography]],  making images from inkblots ([[German language|German]] ''Tinten-Klecks'') and in 1857 he published a book of klecksographs an poetry titled ''Klecksographien''.<ref name="Lee1999">{{cite book|author=Laura Lee|title=The Name's Familiar: Mr. Leotard, Barbie, and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-tNsbAhFiIC&pg=PA232|accessdate=26 June 2013|year=1999|publisher=Pelican Publishing|isbn=978-1-4556-0918-5|pages=232–}}</ref> In 1896, a similar book titled ''Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old'' was published in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=Book News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-MRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143|accessdate=26 June 2013|year=1897|pages=143}}</ref>

In his childhood, [[Hermann Rorschach]] had a klecksography hobby, and this had eventually led to the development of his [[Rorschach test]].<ref name="Lee1999"/>

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File:Kerner Kleksographien 07.jpg|From [[Justinus Kerner]]'s ''Klecksographien'' (1890)
File:Rorschach blot 01.jpg|A Rorschach's blot
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