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