03-06-2020, 02:14 PM
From what I've read, including material from the footwear industry, making leather white almost always involves covering up its color. Also, kaolin clay makes and appearance in pottery at the same time white spolioi are starting to be depicted; it, along with marble powder are ingredients in the powdered milk paint that is available. Looking at pigments and cements used on Greek and Roman statuary that was meant to be exposed to the elements, those ingredients and beeswax are also used, along with white lead. White lead is described as an excellent ingredient for whitening leather and also helps to make it waterproof; It's also poisonous, thus the use of the titanium dioxide powder as a substitute. To make a spolas as I am doing it, you have to use the powdered milk paint, btw.
Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius Flav
