Cob: Paint Alternatives

[Rosemary Lyndall Wemm]

List Members,

Here are some useful URLs I came across today:

A recipe for "genuine falun red paint" [h2o, wheat flour, red pigment, green
vitriol [=iron sulphate], linseed oil]
[http://www.falurodfarg.com/english/files/recipe.html]


"House Paint - a Gloss Over". Australian paper on past and present
ingredients of house paint.  Pointers to companies making alternatives to
current commercial and somewhat toxic paints.  Mainly Australian, but some
international ones.
[http://forests.org/ric/good_wood/housepnt.htm]

Green Products Links.  Mainly American, this time :-) Contains an item of
floor coverings made from linseed oil, natural resins (= pine resins?), wood
"flour", limestone and jute.  It might be worth while experimenting with
such substances.
[http://webby.cc.denison.edu/enviro/barney/links.html]


 - Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM,