These old jars were purchased off ebay as they are, with distressed lids. Because I don't know what these bottles originally held, they couldn't be used for any spices that might go into food so they can only be used as props. I filled each with something that looked like an ingredient and printed up labels on sticker paper. I used a font that I liked to print the name of the contents and went over this with a permanent brush-tipped marker to give them a hand-quilled look. A basic black border is all that these required. Anything else would have seemed like too much. The ingredients and their labels are as follows:
- Dried Doxy Venom: turbinado sugar
- Beetle Eyes: black dragees (bought in a cake/candy decorating shop)
- Dessicated Rat Brains: bulk-purchased dried garbanzo beans
- Bowtruckle Skin: thin bark stripped off fallen branches
- Asphodel Leaf: tarragon
- Knarl Quills: pine needles cut to roughly equal lengths
