Shellac size
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Description
Thin solutions of white shellac dissolved in ethanol were used as a size for gesso and as an adhesive in gold tooling and blocking.
Authority
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982