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Linolie & Pigment adheres to traditional craftsmanship and produces historical products free from microplastics and unnecessary chemicals
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LINSEED PAINT
SATIN WOOD OIL
AQUALINUM WALL PAINT®
OUR COLOUR CARDS
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EXPLORE REFERENCE: A HOME WITH COLOURFUL WALLS
Satin Wood Oil outside of colour series
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Linolie og Pigment is a company that consciously goes against the grain - we bring a modern approach to an ancient craft.Good craftsmanship and consideration for the environment are important values for us.
"We cherish the old
craftsmanship processes and
virtues from a bygone era"
With our products, you can lean back and enjoy the colours. They have all been created with the best skills and thoroughness, developed specially for you.
Our production is situated in Denmark, where everything is manufactured according to old traditional principles. It takes time, requires experience and the production is labour intensive, but it is all worth it. By grounding the pigments on machines, after old techniques, you can leave out all the boring and unnecessary additives.
INSTRUCTION: HOW TO PAINT WITH LINSEED PAINT
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AQUALINUM® REFERENCE
OUR STORIES: WHERE I FOUND MY CRAFT
Linolie & Pigment A/S is a craft business that produces paint based on old techniques and good raw materials. The Linseed Oil is essential in our production, and it is used as a binder in the paint production. A binder is what causes the pigment to adhere to the bottom so that the pigment will not fall off the painted surface.
We use Linseed Oil because of the drying benefits compared to rapeseed oil, grape seed oil or sunflower oil. Upon the uptake of oxygen, it is converted to linoxyn and thereby expanding by 15-18%. An example that can illustrate the crucial place of Linseed Oil in the composition of Linseed Paint would simply be to mix some pigment up with water, and then smear the mixture up on a wall. When the coloured mixture is dry, you will experience that the pigment spreads if you stroke your hand over the surface. Likewise, the pigment will be rinsed off if it starts to rain.
A binder may completely or partially prevent this. All binders have different qualities, some are weak, and some are strong - they can be simple or complex. Some examples that can be mentioned is following binders:
WEAK AND SIMPLE: Buttermilk, beer, caragen (seaweed) cellulose glue etc.
STRONG AND SIMPLE: Linseed oil, stand oil, blood, Chinese wood oil, etc.
WEAK AND COMPLEX: Plasticpaint, Plasticmaling, water alkyd emulsion paint etc.
STRONG AND COMPLEX: Tonkin varnish, alkyd varnish (synthetic resin) and all other varnshes and lacquers.
Since I deal with Linseed Oil in our daily production, it is natural to me that it is this binder that I want to elaborate on. The information about Linseed Oil that is available online is often quite good, but there is also a bit nonsense in between. The knowledge I have acquired over the years comes from old books, conversations with suppliers, farmers who have grown flax, my customers and through multiple tests and experiments performed in my production over the years. And not to forget, the countless conversations with my good friend and very experienced painter Dennis Lund from Børge Haves eftf.
Most people know flaxseed as a good old classic ingredient in Danish cuisine. Maybe you've had a mom or grandma who used flaxseed in her healthy buns through the 70s and 80s, otherwise you may know them from today's health wave. The flaxseeds are super healthy, and they contain one of the most nutritious oils - namely linseed oil.
The healthy properties of flaxseeds date back to the research of the German physiologist, physician, and Nobel laureate Otto Heinrich Warburg. His research sheds light on the unsurpassed nutritional properties of vegetable oils, where Linseed Oil is very rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as Omega-3 and Omega-6. In fact, Linseed Oil is the oil that contains the most Omega-3 fatty acids of all vegetable oils.
The flax plant has been known since ancient times, and today there are more than 90 varieties. In Denmark, flax (Latin: linum usitatissimum) has been cultivated for more than 700 years.
Pigments are used to colour the many different types of paint. At Linolie & Pigment, we have a large selection of beautiful pigments that can be used both indoors and outdoors. Our production is based on 31 different pigments, and we mix our colour range based on the different pigments. The pigments come from a variety of natural sources - from vegetable colours to for example carbon black. Sometimes we use fully or semi-synthetic pigments, which is a fairly old tradition - which are dated back to the pigment 'Paris blue' from 1706. The "youngest" synthetic pigment that we use, is from the end of the 20th century. We do not produce anything that is based on a synthetic pigment that is newer than that. Before the Pigments can be grinded into a paste, they must first be mixed with Linseed Oil. In order not to discolor the mixture unnecessarily, we use a bleached linseed oil for this purpose.
Once the Linseed Oil and the Pigment are stirred well and thoroughly together, it can be grinded on the wood roller. Depending on the nature of the pigments, the earth colours are coarse, and the oxides are fine, the mass will be grinded 2-5 times until the paste is glossy, homogeneous and all the pigments are saturated with oil, all the way into the core.
The pigments we use all have different properties and characteristics. Umbra comes from Cyprus, for example, as the pigment pits for industrial use are today depleted in Umbria in Italy. Umbra contains high amounts of manganese, which is an oxidant, and it helps to promote the drying properties of the paint. Soot black, on the other hand, which is our lightest paste, is a colour that, as the name suggests, has been created by suffocating a gas flame in an incomplete combustion. During the production of a grinded paste, soot black absorbs five times as much oil as the white pigment, titanium dioxide. Soot black is a so-called organic pigment and it is the pigment that has the least hardening properties.
At Linolie & Pigment we are producing Linseed Paint according to old recipes and a proud handcraft tradition. We manufacture products from the time when things like to take time, because it is indeed the time that creates the best results. Linseed Paint has been used for centuries, and with good reason, because there are many of benefits. The paint is mainly used for painting of wood and iron, but the paint additionally sticks well to untreated surfaces as well as surfaces that previously have been treated with Linseed Paint or other types of paint.
Our Linseed Paint protects the ground material and is open to diffusion, which means that it doesn’t block any moisture inside. The paint simply consists of Linseed Oil and Pigment. In addition, we also add Siccative (hardening accelerator) and if the paint is going to be used outside, we occasionally add fungicide against mould.
Aqualinum builds a bridge between ancient knowledge and the contemporary user who wants a healthy and sensible paint without added preservatives, MI, phthalates, sedatives and solvents. Aqualinum is designed to easily use with a roller or spray like conventional paint. The name Aqualinum is a combination of the Latin "aqua" and "linum", as the paint is built up over an emulsion of water and linseed oil. The few ingredients: water, linseed oil, cellulose glue and pigment combine in good craftsmanship for the purest paint, where all unnecessary chemistry is left out. The pigments that are used in our production are of the highest quality. This ensures good opacity and high lightfastness, but note; each pigment has its very own properties, and must therefore be handled accordingly.
Aqualinum wall paint has good drying properties, because of it’s simple structure. The wall paint is already hand dry after a few hours and hardened after approx. three weeks. Aqualinum is completely matte and can be delivered in very dark colours. You must be aware that during curing a natural and harmless scent is emitted. It is the linseed oil that is converted to linoxynh. We always say that the paint is being honest. By an honest paint is meant that it will immediately tell you not to move into a room until the scent has subsided. The scent occurs when the paint is finished hardening.
Satin Wood Oil is available in a multitude of colours and can be used on most absorbent surfaces, especially wood, but also concrete or for example a tile floor. The oil series has been developed in collaboration with Dinesen Floors, where the durability has been tested around the Dinesen factory. Satin Wood Oil has a durability that is up to three times stronger compared to conventional oil, which makes this product extremely obvious to use on floors or furniture.
Satin Wood Oil can be used in many ways, but the preparation of the surface is essential for a beautiful result, when you are going to oil an entire floor, a piece of furniture or something completely third. Working with Satin Wood Oil is super simple but be aware that Satin Wood Oil can vary depending on the type of wood you are dealing with and how you prepared the surface. When you start working with the oil, it is first and foremost extremely important that the wood does not have a painted or treated surface but appears untreated. Otherwise, the oil can’t be absorbed by the wood. The procedure of your work is different depending on whether you need to oil an entire floor with a polishing machine or a piece of furniture.
The purpose of our colour card has been to encapsulate a small part of our universe and make it easier to explore a world of colours that are free from all kinds of additives. We have spent more than a year working through every single colour and detail. This is followed by experimentation and a lot of handcraft in our mixing room and working on the visual expression and layout. Just like the rest of our products, we do not skip the easy way. We are slowly hurrying and enjoying the work progress. We are very proud of the result – and we hope you will explore our entire range of colours!
It has been an exciting, creative and challenging process to determine and afterwards limit ourselves to 99 standard colours in our assortment of Linseed Paint and Aqualinum Wall Paint. It is not possible to reproduce the texture of the paint, but the printed colours are calibrated to match the paint, but since we are a craft company, you must expect a bit deviation from order to order. If you want to try out the colour and texture at home, you are more than welcome to order a colour sample.