Today’s
techniques
Let’s take a look at modern wood –
finishing, and the events that directly led to our present
tecniques.
Finishing in the modern sense began in
the cvnineteenth century. Paul Johnson, in his book The
Birth of the Modern,
Dates the start of the odern Era at 1815. Napoleon had just
met his Waterloo, and the world was on the brink of an explosion
of new ideas, technologies and discoveries. In the mids
of all this newness, a lowly insect called laccifer lacca