Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime or chalk, sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.
Three different brands of kalsomine
Whitewashers, photographed by Nicolae Ionescu [cs], 1928
White-painted trees in Turkey
A whitewashed langhuis (long cottage) in rural Verloren Vlei, Western Cape region of South Africa
Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is
Whitewash
…widely used to give a bright tinge to boiled white textiles, was a common 19th century addition. Apocryphally, pig's blood was added to give the colour Suffolk pink, a colour widely used on house exteriors in some areas of the UK. Pozzolanic materials are occasionally added to give a much harder wearing paint finish…
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Excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship in 1939