Egg Tempura

[Rockstar]

So there I was watching another so called educational program 'Big Bad Battles'. A company of reenactors were preparing for the Battle of Badon. One of the smiths who decorates the shields with period symbology made his paint with ground pigments but instead of oil he used egg yolk as the vehicle. Apparently that's the way they did it back in the day.



Pretty kewl learned something new.

[Platapus]

That would only work if one wanted to eat their shield. :D


The term you meant is egg tempera which a type of paint.



Tempura is a type of Japanese batter.

[Rockstar]

That would only work if one wanted to eat their shield. :D


The term you meant is egg tempera which a type of paint.



Tempura is a type of Japanese batter.




Ya I meant to do that :D


I blame Microsoft spell check

[Jimbuna]

:O:

[Eichhörnchen]

Egg yolk was widely used as a pigment binding medium for 'dry' fresco painting in ancient times; fresco was the application of paint onto plaster (like in the Sistine Chapel) and was often also done on wet and nearly dry plaster, so that it would soak right in and become more permanent. When painting on wet or nearly dry plaster the egg yolk binder was not needed