So you think it’s just paint!
Paint is a wonderful way to change your world, both indoors and out. There have been some amazing technical changes to the products that we take for granted.
years ago, man was painting murals on his cave walls using the blood of animals, mixed with soils, fats and oils. The Egyptians were particularly
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adept at wall decoration. They paint- ed wonderful murals of heroic deeds and everyday life in six living colours: white from lime or white lead; black, from charcoal; red from iron based soils, lead and red ochre; yellow from
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rom time immemorial, humans have been decorating their living spaces. As long as 40,000
yellow ochre, blue from cobalt and green from copper. In China, where paper was invent-
ed, pictures of birds, landscapes and flowers were painted on rice paper and glued to their walls as early as 200 B.C. In Europe tapestries were the main wall decoration until the Middle Ages, although houses were being painted by 1200 when a paint- ing and staining guild was started in England. In America, wall decoration was frowned on by the Pilgrims, who
charged a preacher with sacrilege in 1630 for painting the interior walls in his house. But it’s hard to keep good ideas down and by the 1700s, in Boston, Thomas Child built a paint mill to grind pigment, which individ- uals then took home and mixed them- selves. In 1866, Sherwin-Williams became the first company to mass produce premixed paint.
How paint is made In making paint, pigment has to
be mixed with some sort of binder to make it adhere to the surface to which
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