Kate, you're probably right. I was only 14 at the time and we switched to acrylics the next year. I just remember calling it "casein".The first paint was a powder which we mixed with hot water, and added pigment. The second, when I was in college, "hoof and horn", was a coarser powder, more sand like in consistency. We mixed this with water also, but it needed to be heated. Then pigment was added. I always thought they were 2 versions of the same stuff. Either way, they can be used on fabric without "bleed" from the oil in oil paint.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kate M Bunting Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] h-costume Digest, Vol 7, Issue 119 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
