SHELLAC

solution of lac in alcohol or acetone. In commerce the name is applied to the resinous substance (lac) itself rather than to the solution. It ranges in color from orange to light yellow depending upon the extent to which it has been purified; the darker shellacs are the less pure. When bleached it is known as white shellac. Applied to surfaces such as wood and plaster, the solution forms a hard coating upon evaporation of the solvent. Shellac is widely used as a spirit varnish, as a protective covering for drawings and plaster casts, for stiffening in the manufacture of felt hats, in making sealing wax, and in electrical insulation.

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books on: Shellac  - 442 results

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Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943
Book by Allan Sutton; Greenwood, 1994
Subjects: Record Labels--United States, Sound Recording Industry--United States--Directories
...1897 began pressing discs in Duranoid, a shellac-based material that proved superior to...ressings like Edisons, and their ordinary shellac pressings were easily damaged by Edisons...following month. Aeolians distinctive red- shellac pressings and a new advertising slogan...
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Foreign Exchange Explained: A Practical Treatment of the Subject for the Banker, the Business Man, and the Student
Book by Franklin Escher; The Macmillan Company, 1917
Subjects: Foreign Exchange
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Printmaking Today: An Introduction to the Graphic Arts
Book by Jules Heller; Holt, 1958
Subjects: Prints--Technique
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Arboriculture: History and Development in North America
Book by Richard J. Campana; Michigan State University Press, 1999
Subjects: Arboriculture--Canada--History, Arboriculture--United States--History
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Metal Casting of Sculpture
Book by Carl Dame Clarke; Standard Arts Press, 1948
Subjects: Precision Casting, Sculpture--Technique
...cast, the cast should first be well shellacked or lacquered. It should then be brushed...glue relief mold. a , The subject is shellacked. b , Ribbons of clay are applied over...from the model. The mother mold is shellacked on the inside and replaced over the...
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journal articles on: Shellac  - 23 results

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Goodbye, Babylon
Journal article by Keith Chandler; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2007
Subjects: Goodbye, Babylon (Sound recording)--Sound recording reviews, Sound recordings--Sound recording reviews
...sets for the Folkways label, derived from the corpus of 78 rpm shellac discs documenting American vernacular music recorded during...bulk of the source stock is inevitably the commercial 78 rpm shellac disc, the compilers have additionally utilized a cylinder from...
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Imitation in the Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Reed Benhamou; Journal of Design History, Vol. 4, 1991
Subjects: Design--History
...the literature. Plumiers work alone contained ten: red varnish made with shellac, clear varnish made with sandarach gum, another very beautiful Chinese varnish, shellac varnish, the excellent varnish from Mr. Ward of England, Chinese varnish...
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Rethinking Realism in Ann Petry's the Street
Journal article by Heather J. Hicks; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Petry, Ann--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Realism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Street (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of the building. Parquet floors here meant that the wood was so old and so discolored no amount of varnish or shellac would conceal the scars and the old scraped places, the years of dragging furniture across the floors, the hammer...
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'So Tough'? Masculinity and Rock 'N' Roll Culture in Post-War Australia
Journal article by Raymond Evans; Journal of Australian Studies, 1998
Subjects: Australians--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Masculinity--Social aspects, Rock music--Social aspects
...such as Nellie Lutchers rhythm and blues number, `Fine Brown Frame, by the colour and design of the labels on the large, 78rpm shellac discs. Les C.s inculcation of rocknroll culture was thus materially privileged; yet, due to his middle-class, residential...
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Latin Music in the United States: Salsa and the Mass Media
Journal article by Peter Manuel; Journal of Communication, Vol. 41, 1991
Subjects: Communication
...a variety of factors led to a decline of the majors neartotal hegemony in the field of ethnic and minority musics. Wartime shellac shortages caused the majors to abandon minority musics, while the advent of magnetic tape and 45 rpm records lowered record...
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Artful Restorations: An Ebeniste Brings Fine Furniture Back to Life
Magazine article by Marshall Jon Fisher; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, August 1997
Subjects: Furniture
...alcohol-soluble dyes for touching up color-degraded shellac finish. For wood he has water-soluble...dyes, which he melts together with hard shellac. The recipes for these dyes have been...Feel how soft it is." These jars contain shellacs for use in a process called French polishing...
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The Dolls of Channapatna-On Their Last Legs?
Magazine article by Ramesh Avadhani; World and I, Vol. 22, March 2007
Subjects: Cities and towns--Social aspects, Dolls--Appreciation, Wooden toys--Appreciation
...enjoy tax concession and a good supply of shellac and soft wood." Soft wood is the ideal...government ought to do away with that ban." Shellac is used for the lacquer finish that imparts...growth that exudes from the bark of the shellac tree, most of it comes from another region...
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Artful Restorations: An Ebeniste Brings Furniture Back to Life
Magazine article by Marshall Jon Fisher; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, August 1997
Subjects: Cabinetmakers (Persons)--Practice, Furniture finishing--Practice, Linker, David--Practice
...alcohol-soluble dyes for touching up color-degraded shellac finish. For wood he has water-soluble...dyes, which he melts together with hard shellac. The recipes for these dyes have been...Feel how soft it is." These jars contain shellacs for use in a process called French polishing...
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Advice for Dancers
Magazine article by Linda Hamilton; Dance Magazine, Vol. 74, January 2000
Subjects: Dancers--Technique, Dancing--Technique
...slow it down? Tamara A Youre in luck! Its possible to keep the boxes of your toe shoes hard longer by using Fabulon, a shellac sold at hardware stores. Just pour a small amount in the tip, swirl it around, and set your shoe on its tip to dry overnight...
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Lesley Dill
Magazine article by Justin Spring; Artforum International, Vol. 34, January 1996
Subjects: Dill, Lesley--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mixed media painting--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Buddhist prayer flags she observed while living in India. Twelve-foot-long hanging cloths of muslin or gauze, stained with tea, shellac, or both, feature photo-silkscreens of despairing male and female faces or nudes, with snatches of Dickinsons poems crudely...
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newspaper articles on: Shellac  - 55 results

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Mystics Shellac Shock to Bolster Playoff Hopes
Newspaper article by Duff Durkin; The Washington Times, August 5, 2000
Mystics shellac Shock to bolster playoff hopes by Duff Durkin For one night, the Washington Mystics shed the inconsistency and erratic...
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Music Notes
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 7, 2000
Subjects: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
...closes Jan. 15, Lounge Ax will be hosting a whos-who of 90s rock, including shows by Eleventh Dream Day, Calexico, Jim ORourke, Shellac, Wilco, The Minus Five and more. The final show will feature the clubs longtime house band, the Cocktails, which is reuniting...
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Taking a Vinyl Bow; End of Era: The Last 78rpm Record Issued by EMI Was by Russ Conway
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 29, 2007
...aspeed around 78 revolutions per minute is called a 78 by collectors. Most 78s are made of brittle shellac resin materialhence their other name: shellac records. The 78rpms demise came when the light and durable 45rpm discs arrived in the1950s. The...
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Is It Too Early to Start the Spotify Backlash?
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 29, 2009
Subjects: Recording industry, Sound recording industry
...Godwin IS SPOTIFY ruining music? I ask not as a representative of the record industry, nor as a Luddite who craves a return to shellac. I ask as a music fan -- the very person this revolutionary website is supposed to benefit. Launched in the UK in February...
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Concert Picks
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 11, 2005
...Nein does not play German krautrock. They are actually a North Carolina trio that combines the noise rock of old-school bands Shellac and Sonic Youth with prog rock newcomers the Mars Volta. A self-titled EP is out now, previewing what to expect when their...
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encyclopedia articles on: Shellac  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Shellac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHELLAC solution of lac in alcohol or acetone. In commerce the name is applied to the resinous...orange to light yellow depending upon the extent to which it has been purified; the darker shellacs are the less pure. When bleached it is known as white shellac. Applied to surfaces such as wood and plaster, the solution forms a hard coating upon evaporation...
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Lac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...insect ( Tachardia lacca ), from which shellac is prepared. India is the chief source of shellac, although some is obtained from other areas...broken into flakes when cool. Orange-colored shellac is made from these flakes by dissolving them...
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Varnish
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...varnishes are commonly made of soft resins or gums, such as shellac , dammer, mastic, or sandarac, dissolved in a volatile solvent...carriage, bookbinders, patent-leather, insulating, photographic, shellac, and copal picture varnish. Varnish has been known from antiquity...
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Resin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...hard and resistant to most solvents, softening only at high temperatures. The primary uses for most resins are in varnish, shellac, and lacquer, in medicine, in molded articles (e.g., pipe mouthpieces), and in electrical insulators. See amber ; balsam...
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Scale Insect
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...suitable spot, they settle down to feed. Some scales secrete a resinous covering, which is used in the commercial production of shellac, varnish, and paints (see lac ). Control of scale insects has been largely by use of natural enemies, especially ladybird...


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