[MR] Milk Paint

[Tom Rettie]

>Has anyone here used milk paint?  My Lord and I have bought a day shade and
>we would like to paint designs on the dags and such.  The material is a
>water resistant/fire-proof synthetic something. :)
>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I use milk paint quite a bit, but only on wood. If your fabric is water
resistant, milk paint probably isn't what you want to use. On wood, milk
paint penetrates the wood fibers (like a stain), rather than forming a hard
shell just on top of the wood. This is nice on wood, since it's less prone
to chipping off. If it can't penetrate the surface, it probably won't give
you the desired effect. There is a binder you can add to milk paint to get
it to adhere to non-porous surfaces (smells like ammonia), but the total
cost gets expensive.

In her Oak article on pavillion construction, Lady Sorcha de Glys
recommends well-diluted latex paint (Issue 16, see
http://oak.atlantia.sca.org/oakindex.html for a copy of the article).

Hope that helps,

Fin




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