8 Interesting Facts about Painting
Some Facts a Professional Painting Company May Not Know
Adding some color to the world using paint is a totally unique human quality, one which we’ve been engaging in for centuries now. For this and other reasons, we as a professional painting company, think paint and painting are extremely interesting topics, and after reading this, we think you too will think the same.
Around 10% of all paint we purchase in the United States is thrown out eventually, and the majority of this paint is for residential projects. That’s over 60,000,000 gallons wasted down the drain!
The oldest house paint known to man was created from lime combined with milk and often natural pigments. Milk paint was used on King Tut’s tomb! Even the White House was painted with lime whitewash.
Through history, a red front door has come to symbolize several things, including a safe place for travellers to stop and a fully paid up mortgage.
Painting company services and artists were once expected to make their own pigments using a mortar and pestle, which is probably why back then only rich people in the United States had a painted house.
The very first painters’ union was created in 1502 in London, and was known as the Worshipful Company of Painters and Stainer’s.
There are more shades of green than any other in available paint color, this is due to the fact the human eye can distinguish more variations than any other color.
In 1940 Norman Breakey first invented the paint roller. He made no profit from it because he forgot to patent it. In World War II, an inventor that worked for Sherwin-Williams created a roller due to the fact the hogs’ hair which was then used for paintbrushes was unavailable.
It was the Greek philosopher Plato who first found out you could combine two different paint colors to create a third color.
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