Sharon Collier wrote: >......................................................... Before acrylics, we >used >to make our own paint, using hoof-and-horn glue. We called it casein paint. >You mixed the ground up stuff (hooves and horns, apparently) up with water, >heated it and mixed in dry pigment. Perhaps this is what they used in olden >times for fabric. >You can still get that kind of glue-it's called "mucilage" or possibly >"hide" glue, the brown stuff that used to come in a glass bottle with an >angled rubber top. ..... >Another name for this might be "milk paint". This is sometimes found on old >furniture. Apparently it's a pain to remove from furniture if you're >refinishing. I've never come across it myself, but I think it's a version of >this type of casein-based paint.
Are you sure you're not talking about two different things, Sharon? My understanding is that casein is a substance found in milk and cheese, but the substance extracted from hooves and horns is gelatin. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
