A varnish made from egg whites, used for tempera paints. Used in the past for tempera paintings and on manuscript illustrations
This is egg white. It is the binding medium used for gilding. The glair is applied to an area then the gold leaf is applied.
Egg white. It is used in egg tempera painting and as a coating material.
binder useful for painting and gilding. Made from whipped egg whites; beating to stiff peaks (as in meringue) breaks down the protein chains in the white and leaves you with a watery fluid.
An adhesive mixture of egg white-albumen-and vinegar, which is applied in a thin coating to a book cover before tooling in gold leaf. It causes the gold to adhere permanently to the book when a heated tool or stamp is impressed upon it. See also Albumen, Gold tooling.
A varnish for tempera paints. Glair is prepared by mixing egg whites with a little water, and beating them. After the resulting bubbles have dissipated, it is then applied.