Oxblood

Accumulating When slaughtering ox blood was utilized by farmers as a paint. A recipe calls 100 liters of ox blood, which are skimmed off 30 liters of serum after a few days, the after is then mixed with 25 kg of lime putty remaining portion, plus some iron oxide and linseed oil. Traditionally, these colors were used for the protection and optical design of wood surfaces with wood floors and timbered. The frequent use of this red - brown hue in the past is based less on taste preferences and more on cost-consciousness, because the paint was cheap.

The term oxblood but is also frequently used in connection with historical colors, but is not clearly defined - neither color nor as a tint. To produce the color, there are various recipes of different authors. The common element of these colors is a red - brown color by using pigments of iron (III ) oxide ( hematite), which is vaguely reminiscent of ( ox ) blood.

With the current methods of producing synthetic mineral pigments, the range of available shades of iron oxide pigments has expanded considerably.

City curator Fritz Sengpiel from Hornburg at Wolfenbüttel opposes the thesis that historical paintings were made ​​with the admixture of genuine ox blood. The red- brown color came from her earthy colors. "The fact that the timber framing were previously painted with ox blood to look red - brown, belongs to the realm of fairy tales. Blood would not give the bar the color. You can not paint something yellow with lemon, too. Clay was burned, crushed and mixed with linseed oil. The red clay stems from the iron oxide. "

Bois Durci ( also named as hardened wood) was in the middle of the 19th century in France a natural plastic made from a mixture of wood flour and ox blood, which was pressed after drying under heating to form pieces.

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