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please call our toll-free order
line for assistance: (800) 861-3729
but note: we're always running
around here at warp speed helping customers...if for some reason
the line is busy, just be patient and keep on trying...or you
can simply email
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effective May 14, most orders ship
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 Produces Authentic Colonial or
Shaker finish!
Environmentally Safe, non-toxic, anti-bacterial!
Dead-Flat finish!
Fast Drying!
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 About Milk
Paint:
In 1974, after much experimentation, we recreated an old Milk
Paint formula to provide an authentic finish for our primary
business of building reproduction furniture. Since then we have
sold our paint to professionals who are either restoring original
Colonial or Shaker furniture, making reproductions, or striving
for an interior design look that is both authentic and beautiful.
Milk Paint is now gaining an even wider usage because it contains
only ingredients that are all-natural and will not harm the environment.
Our authentic real milk paint is truely a "green paint"
that comes in 16 colors.
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TWENTY CLASSIC COLORS
   
Our milk paint colors were developed to match the furniture and
buildings shown at several restored villages including Old Sturbridge
Village, plus museum displays in such places as Boston's Museum
of Fine Arts, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur,
Colonial Williamsburg, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wadsworth
Atheneum, etc. The original Colonial pieces we copied were painted
with home-made milk paint, with vivid colors and a most beautiful
look of velvet. We started with 8 colors in 1974 and now have
20. All of our hues are exact replications of colors used in
the early American colonies. At present we are experimenting
with a few additional colors.
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barn red |
bayberry |
buttermilk |
chocolate brown |
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driftwood |
federal blue |
lexington green |
light cream |
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marigold |
mustard |
oyster |
pitch black |
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pumpkin |
salem red |
salmon |
sea green |
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slate |
snow |
soldier blue |
tavern green |
 Colors are only as
accurate as your computer monitor and/or printer can reproduce.
Actual colors will vary somewhat. For a brochure and color card
please contact us.
CHANGING COLORS
By producing batches of strong, rich colors we have
made it easy to adjust tinting in order to make pastels as well
as an infinite variey of other hues by mixing our colors together.
Practically any color can be matched by the user, the same way
that artists have done with oil paints for centuries.
Our paint is also available as a translucent Milk
Paint Base, without pigment, for those who wish to start from
scratch with their own universal tinting colors or other water-soluble
pigments.
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milk paint pint: $8.95
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milk paint quart: $15.50
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milk paint gallon: $43.95
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Extra-Bond pint: $8.95
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Extra-Bond quart: $15.50
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Extra-Bond gallon: $43.95
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Antique Crackle pint: $13.75
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Antique Crackle quart: $22.95
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Antique Crackle gallon: $69.95
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Clear Coat quart: $12.75
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Clear Coat gallon: $36.95
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MILK PAINT
IN THE BEGINNING
Paint has been used by mankind since before recorded
history, first as decoration, and much later as a protective
coating. The oldest painted surfaces on earth were colored with
a form of milk paint. Cave drawings and paintings made 8,000
years ago, even as old as 20,000 years ago, were made with a
simple composition of milk, lime, and earth pigments. When King
Tutankhamen's tomb was opened in 1924, artifacts including models
of boats, people, and furniture found inside the burial chamber
had been painted with milk paint.
Because the original formula for milk paint was so
simple to make and use, it was for thousands of years a major
form of decoration throughout the world. Over time, and in various
places, different recipes, including milk protein(casein), lime,
and pigments were tried, producing varying results in durability.
Many of these coatings also provided weatherproofing, while others
disintegrated, leaving only a permanent stain on the painted
surface. The variations included adding substances such as olive
oil, linseed oil, eggs, animal glue, or waxes. Over the centuries,
better recipes were found that could produce a durable coating,
which could last indefinitely. The colors on the walls painted
at Dendaras, even though exposed to the open air for centuries,
are as vivid today as they must have been 2000 years ago.
RENAISSANCE
The first revolution in the make-up of paint came
with the Flemish artists in the fifteenth century. The Greeks
and Romans had some earlier success with adding olive oil to
their paint mixture, but had difficulty with it drying properly.
The first use of a good oil- based paint has been accredited
to the Flemish artist, Jan van Eyck, around 1410. While not the
first to use oil paint, he was believed to be the first to establish
a stable varnish as a pigment binder. His innovations produced
an art that set the standard for a long time to come.
Jan van Eyck's varnish was improved upon later in
the fifteenth century by such Italian masters as Leonardo da
Vinci, Tintoretto, and Antonello da Messina. In the early seventeenth
century, the recipe was improved again by Rubens while studying
in Italy. He used warm walnut oil and also copied da Messina
in using lead oxide in his pigments.
COMMERCIAL PAINT
Over the next 200 to 300 years, the old water-based
milk paint, as well as the newer oil paint remained relatively
unchanged. Artists mixed their own paints, as did house painters
and furniture makers. Recipes for oil paints were closely guarded
secrets. Milk paint continued to be made the way it had been
for thousands of years before.
In Colonial America, as earlier in Europe, itinerant
painters roamed the countryside, carrying pigments with them,
which could be mixed with a farmer's or householder's own milk
and lime. Often, the itinerant painter would be a tinker or farrier,
or have some trade in addition to his knowledge of paint. Practically
every household had their own cow or goat, and each community
had its own lime pit. Even though there exist many examples of
early American furniture that was painted with some form of oil
paint, the look associated most widely with the country homes
and furniture of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries is that of
the soft velvety, rich colors of milk paint.
This scene doesn't change much until after the Civil
War. In 1868, the first patent was given for the metal paint
can with its tightly fitting top. With this development came
the commercial oil paint industry. For the first time, paint
could be manufactured in great mass, packaged in the new patented
cans and shipped to stores throughout the country.
But this kind of operation does not lend itself to
the use of milk paint. Made from natural milk protein, it will
spoil just like whole milk. Therefore, from the very beginning
of the commercial oil paint industry, up until 1935, the only
paint sold commercially was oil-based paint, to which was added
lead, mildewcides, and other poisonous additives. Other types
of casein paints were developed that could not be considered
milk paint. Casein was mixed with fromaldehyde, or with ammonia,
or with borax, to create much different types of paint recipes.
Around 1935, a new water-based casein(milk protein) paint was
developed with the use of synthetic rubber and styrene. This
was called Kem-Tone, the first latex paint, which met with great
commercial success.
THE GREEN REVOLUTION
After World War II, chemists working for major paint
manufacturers began developing new formulas for paints. Along
with these developments came a burgeoning awareness among American
consumers that many of these developments posed a growing health
problem. The lead and mercury in the paint was highly toxic,
as were the many solvents(now called VOCs and HAPs), mildewcides,
germicides, and numerous other additives.
The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. This
date more than any other established the determination by a consuming
public to execute a change in American products that were harmful
to their users. Since that time, the use of lead and mercury
have been outlawed in paint, as have many of the solvents(VOCs)
traditionally used.
The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company was established
in 1974. We have made every effort to produce a paint that not
only gives the look of Colonial America, with many historic-based
colors, but is also completely biodegradable, with no VOCS, HAPs
or EPA-exempt solvents added. We've found a safe way to reproduce
the old look and make a milk paint the old-fashioned way. Yes,
it will spoil, just like whole milk, but its also as safe as
drinking whole milk. (Not that you'd want to, of course.)
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