Show early day painting in the days when paint recipes were kept to in the family famili cook bo book k our c colonial ancestors knew about making paint out of at skimmed milk which Is basically the same idea as the modern casein paint of today which has a milk base colonial c 1 dames mixed skimmed milk with salt boiled rice coffee and egg white when they wanted a batch of paint for freshening up their houses bouses and a painted house was a matter of social prestige it was considered presumptuous for a tradesman 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 doctor docto r lawyer and ship owner |