Oilcloth
As Wachstuch , also oil-cloth and varnish cloth (engl. Oilcloth ) refers to a waterproof fabric made of cotton , flax or jute , which with varnish or oil impregnated or coated and before about seagoing goods was used for packaging.
Manufacturing
To produce oilcloth with a smooth surface, the fabric used to be stretched in a frame, coated with flour paste and then repeatedly coated with a colored base , which usually consists of soot and linseed oil varnish . After each coat of paint you sand with pumice stone , cover the cloth with gloss varnish after it has reached sufficient strength and smoothness and finally paint it.
The steps are similar to the surface sizing and priming of canvas with gesso . However, canvas is not covered with gloss varnish or varnish.
Flour paste can, for example, consist of fillers such as plaster of paris, chalk or other rock flour and, when mixed with paste , results in a pasty mass in order to compensate for the unevenness of the fabric.
use
Oilcloth is manufactured in a wide variety of colors, marbled, figured, imitation wood, printed with patterns in bright colors (damascene) and bronze colors ( bronzed ) .
Oilcloth is used to cover and pack goods; instead of varnish , it is coated with prepared coal tar or with a glass of water . The finer varieties such as wax fustian , wax muslin , leather cloth , used to Sattler - and portfolio work as wipe clean wax tablecloth and for covering the furniture. Strong oilcloth worked on both sides is used as tarpaulins for cars, for covering floors, stairs, etc.
If the fillers mixed with linseed oil are applied in a thickness of several millimeters, so that the canvas only serves as a backing and reinforcement, it is called linoleum .
Wachstuch paper or wax wrapping paper is tough wrapping paper with a coat made of lampblack and boiled linseed oil , or from asphalt , boiled linseed oil and turpentine .
literature
- Rudolf Eßlinger: The manufacture of the oilcloth, the American leather cloth, the cork carpets or linoleum, the wax taffeta, the painting and drawing canvas as well as the manufacture of the tar cloth, the roofing felt and the representation of the incombustible and tanned fabrics. Hartleben, Vienna 1880 ( online ).
