whitewash

Whitewashing a wall

With whitewash is usually lime paint meant only from so-called slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and water is made and the coating of ceiling and walls is determined.

As an alternative, whitewash can also be made on the basis of glue as a binder and chalk , plaster of paris or white clay as a filler and dye and improved with additional binders (e.g. casein , tallow ) and white pigments .

For the application, colorants can be added to the basic product in order to obtain a colored coating.

The word whitewash is derived from the Old High German tunicha and Middle High German tuniche and means to clothe or disguise .

Individual evidence

↑ whitewash. In: Angela Weyer et al. (Ed.): EwaGlos. European Illustrated Glossary Of Conservation Terms For Wall Paintings And Architectural Surfaces . English Definitions with translations into Bulgarian, Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0260-7 , p. 86 , doi : 10.5165 / hawk-hhg / 233 ( download ).

^ Tünche auf Duden, accessed online on September 26, 2014.

[1] whitewash. In: Angela Weyer et al. (Ed.): EwaGlos. European Illustrated Glossary Of Conservation Terms For Wall Paintings And Architectural Surfaces . English Definitions with translations into Bulgarian, Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0260-7 , p. 86 , doi : 10.5165 / hawk-hhg / 233 ( download ).