Show early day painting in the days when paint recipes were kept in the family cook book our colonial ancestors knew about making paint out of skimmed milk which is basically the same idea as the modern casein paint of today which has a milk base colonial da dames mes mixed skimmed milk with salt boiled rice coffee and egg white when they wanted a batch of paint for or freshening up their louses and a painted house bouse was a matter of social prestige it was considered presumptuous for a ra to paint his dwelling gradually though as the idea of equality penetrated the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker decided they had as much right to paint their houses as the lawyer and ship owner |